The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Orangutan uses plants to heal wound
For the first time ever, a wild animal has been observed healing a wound using a plant as medicine.
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The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
THE LAB
Three things to make and do
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BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Stones of the SOLSTICE
Jamie Carter explores 12 ancient stones, tombs and temples across the world that align with the Sun at the solstice
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June 2024
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
The spirit of the eclipse
Eclipse chaser Yvette Cook reports on what it was like in the path of totality in Texas during 8 April's Great American Eclipse
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June 2024
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Unearthing galaxies in the archives
Comparing old Hubble data to today is revealing distant active galaxies
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June 2024
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Manhattanhenge
New York's urban island of Manhattan, with its gridiron street layout, sees summer Suns set neatly between skyscrapers. Jamie Carter explains the phenomenon
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June 2024
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Surfing spacetime with LISA
A new era of gravitational wave astronomy is on its way as the ambitious upcoming LISA space mission joins a host of huge detectors on Earth. Charlie Hoy explains
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June 2024
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
A very British eclipse
In 1927, Britain experienced its first total solar eclipse since 1724. Mike Frost looks at how, like 8 April 2024's US spectacle, eclipse fever swept the nation
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June 2024
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Cosmic rays
In part two of our series, Govert Schilling looks at cosmic rays, the high-energy particles that bombard Earth from space
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June 2024
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
A quicker way to colourise your narrowband frames
Create a bicolour image in Siril using data from just two narrowband filters
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June 2024
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
When Haydn met the Herschels
Jonathan Powell on how the astronomer siblings inspired the famous composer
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June 2024
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Voyager 1 is back online and exploring the unknown
An interstellar rescue brings the venerable spacecraft back after months out of action
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June 2024
How It Works UK
COULD A SUPERNOVA WORDS ANDREW MAY ENGULF EARTH?
We put some intriguing, baffling and bizarre space questions under the spotlight
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How It Works UK
A drone with a rotating detonation rocket engine' approached the speed of sound
venus Aerospace has completed the inaugural test flight of a drone fitted with its rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE), accelerating it to just under the speed of sound.
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How It Works UK
DNA reveals that ancient American lineage goes back 18,000 years
Members of the Blackfoot Confederacy have an ancient lineage that goes back 18,000 years. This means that Indigenous peoples living in the Great Plains of Montana and southern Alberta today can trace their origins to ice age predecessors.
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How It Works UK
A group of 60 ultra-faint stars could be a new type of galaxy
A stronomers have spotted the faintest and lightest satellite galaxy ever found: a minuscule, tight-knit group of stars trailing the Milky Way.
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How It Works UK
An underwater mountain hosts creatures unknown to science
An underwater mountain chain off Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, hosts an astonishing array of deep-sea species, at least 50 of which are new to science.
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How It Works UK
Understanding MENTAL HEALTH
Take a tour of the brain to discover the origins of anxiety and how to tackle it
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How It Works UK
HOW STONEHENGE WAS BUILT
Who built this stone circle and how was this ancient feat of engineering pulled off?
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How It Works UK
A sleeping subduction zone could swallow the Atlantic
A subduction zone below the Gibraltar Strait is creeping westward and could one day ‘invade’ the Atlantic Ocean, causing the ocean to slowly close up.
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How It Works UK
WHAT ARE ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS?
Some natural products are drastically transformed by the food industry, and regularly eating them can affect our health
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How It Works UK
ANIMALS ON THE BRINK
Meet some of the most critically endangered animals from around the world and discover why they're on the brink of extinction
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The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
The largest plane to ever fly
Take a first look at the mighty Radia WindRunner aircraft
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The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Huge gold nugget found
A gold nugget that could be the largest ever found in England was recently put up for auction. Metal detectorist Richard Brock discovered the nugget on farmland during an organised expedition in Shropshire last year.
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The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Smoke rings in the sky
In April, videos were filmed of Mount Etna, a volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, puffing what looked like smoke rings into the sky.
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The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
SUGAR RUSH
Join the candy craze as Claire Karwowski studies the sugary science of sweets.
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The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Wildlife watch
Stevie Derrick shows you what to spot in nature this month
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The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Evolutionary tree shows birds in a new light
Researchers have produced the most detailed evolutionary tree of birds ever.
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The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
Dogs can understand names of objects
Humans enjoy talking to their dogs. If you have a four-legged friend of your own, you might have taught them to respond to commands like \"sit\" and \"stay\".
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The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
WORLD OF WHIFFS
Stevie Derrick follows her nose to track down the world's grossest stinks and nastiest niffs.
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