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Curious Kids: what stops meteors hitting Earth and hurting people?
Austin Human/Unsplash Sara Webb, Swinburne University of Technology How does Earth stop meteors from hitting Earth and hurting…
Future pandemics will have the same human causes as ancient outbreaks − lessons from anthropology can help prevent them
The changes that came with the transition from foraging to farming paved the way for disease. Nastasic/DigitalVision Vectors…
Our new vaccine could protect against coronaviruses that haven’t even emerged yet – new study
Numstocker/Shutterstock Rory Hills, University of Oxford The rapid development of vaccines that protect against COVID was a remarkable…
Venus is losing water faster than previously thought – here’s what that could mean for the early planet’s habitability
An artist’s illustration of hydrogen disappearing from Venus. Aurore Simonnet/ Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics/ University of…
Terminal lucidity: why do loved ones with dementia sometimes ‘come back’ before death?
Pexels/Andrea Piacquadio Yen Ying Lim, Monash University and Diny Thomson, Monash University Dementia is often described as “the…
West Antarctica’s ice sheet was smaller thousands of years ago – here’s why this matters today
Hugh Chittock/Antarctica New Zealand, CC BY-SA Dan Lowry, GNS Science and Holly Kyeore Han, NASA As the climate…
Why don’t female crickets chirp?
I feel a song coming on … Paul Starosta/Stone via Getty images Floyd W. Shockley, Smithsonian Institution Curious…
MeerKAT: the South African radio telescope that’s transformed our understanding of the cosmos
Some of the satellite dishes that make up the MeerKAT. South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) Ed Elson,…
A Nasa rover has reached a promising place to search for fossilised life on Mars
NASA/JPL-Caltech Sean McMahon, The University of Edinburgh While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered…
Dark matter: our new experiment aims to turn the ghostly substance into actual light
Galaxy cluster, left, with ring of dark matter visible, right. NASA Andrea Gallo Rosso, Stockholm University A ghost…