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A NINTENDO GAMECUBE?
The ‘purple lunchbox’ wasn't as successful as the PlayStation 2 or Xbox, but Nintendo played the long game with the GameCube's hardware
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HOW PARACHUTES WORK
There's much more to this essential piece of flight safety equipment than a simple tug on a rip cord
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REAL-LIFE ZOMBIES
How much science is there behind the grasping undead creatures of horror flicks?
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TECH AHEAD OF ITS TIME
Some of today's technology goes back much further than you'd imagine
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RAPID EVOLUTION IN ACTION
We think of evolution as a slow, gradual process, but that’s not always the case. Some species undergo a rapid transformation
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A NEW PHOTO SHOWS SUNSPOTS IN INCREDIBLE DETAIL
Incredible new images of the Sun’s surface provide an unprecedented view of raging sunspots and solar activity.
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HENRIETTA SWAN LEAVITT
This groundbreaking astronomer helped us discover our place in the universe
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1940s Ford car found on a wartime US carrier wreck
Researchers exploring the wreck of an American aircraft carrier have discovered what's left of a wood-paneled Ford automobile from the 1940s in the ship's hanger bay.
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'Super-vision' contact lenses let wearers see in the dark
Scientists have created night-vision contact lenses that they claim can grant people 'super-vision.'
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New space-adapted bacteria species found on the Chinese space station
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown strain of microbe after analysing samples taken from China's Tiangong space station.
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HOW TO PICK A POPE
Follow the Vatican's journey to appoint the next direct successor of Saint Peter
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EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD REVEALS WHAT DROVE EARLY HUMANS OUT OF AFRICA
A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a crater lake on the border of Tanzania and Kenya, contains records of wobbles in the planet’s magnetic field.
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WHAT IS A STARQUAKE?
Neutron stars can suffer quakes far more powerful than anything on Earth
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NORWAY AIMS FOR A “SAFE, PEACEFUL AND PROSPEROUS FUTURE IN SPACE”
55 nations have now penned their commitment to NASA’s Artemis Accords. NASA announced Norway’s decision to sign up for a “safe, peaceful and prosperous future in space”, as the space agency’s website phrases it.
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HOW TO EXPLORE IMPOSSIBLE DEPTHS
Crabster is built to crawl across the ocean floor, reaching locations off limits to other submarines
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China and Russia to build a power plant on the Moon
Russia has signed a deal with China to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon.
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A groundbreaking amplifier could make the internet ten times faster
Scientists have developed a new type of laser amplifier that can transmit information ten times faster than current technology. Laser amplifiers boost the intensity of light beams.
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Gigantic 'mud waves' reveal the dramatic formation of the Atlantic
The discovery of buried 'mud waves' off the coast of West Africa reveals that the Atlantic Ocean was born at least 4 million years earlier than scientists thought.
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Your fingers ‘prune’ the exact same way each time
Everyone knows that your fingers get wrinkly after spending too long in the bath, but it turns out that those wrinkles form in the same way every time.
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Is Voyager 1 in interstellar space now?
Yes. After a 47-year journey out of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has left the heliosphere - the region dominated by particles flowing out from the Sun in the solar wind.
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AMAZING SELF SAILING BOATS
From a modern-day Mayflower to flying water taxis, autonomous vessels are taking their crews farther than ever across the world's waterways
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HOW ELECTRICITY GETS TO YOUR HOME
From power plant to plug socket, follow the journey electricity takes before it reaches our homes
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WHEN IS THE NEXT ICE AGE?
By following Earth's journey around the Sun, scientists are able to predict the next deep freeze
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WHY ANIMALS PLAY
From bees playing ball to snowboarding birds, is there reason to animal recreation?
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WHAT IS THE WATER TABLE?
Get to grips with groundwater and discover where it comes from
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AN INCREDIBLE PHOTO CAPTURES THE SUN RISING BEHIND THE WORLD'S LARGEST TELESCOPE
Construction of the world's largest telescope has reached its highest point with assembly of the roof's dome and large sliding doors that will shield the observatory.
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WHAT IS THE GREAT ATTRACTOR?
Head for the stars and discover what it is that makes the Great Attractor such a magnetic idea
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HOW WAVE POOLS WORK
What technology is used to sculpt the perfect wave?
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BUILDING A SUPERSCRAPER
Stretching into the sky, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is by far the tallest human-made structure ever built, and its design will enable us to build even higher
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THE UNIVERSE MAY REVOLVE ONCE EVERY 500 BILLION YEARS
In 1929, Edwin Hubble published a paper demonstrating that the universe is expanding. It gave rise to the Hubble constant, the number that describes how fast the universe is expanding.
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