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A Purdue University committee says the scientist who claimed to have triggered 'bubble fusion' in 2002 is guilty of research misconduct
20:01 18 July 2008
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Several of us at New Scientist recently came across an interesting paper by Timothy Clifton and colleagues at the University of Oxford entitled "Living in a Void: Testing the Copernican Principle with distant supernovae".The paper argues that if we are...
18:21 18 July 2008
If they had super-powerful telescopes, it might look like what the Deep Impact probe recently saw from its vantage point 50 million km away
00:40 18 July 2008
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The US plan to send humans back to the Moon is experiencing growing pains.Publicly, NASA has said it plans to launch Orion, an Apollo-like capsule that will replace the space shuttle and will also ferry astronauts to the Moon, by...
17:46 17 July 2008
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Ceres sits in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – yet its composition suggests it has wandered far from its origins
14:50 17 July 2008
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The Mars lander has successfully drilled holes into the icy soil, a first step to delivering ice to the craft's science instruments
22:12 16 July 2008
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The highest-resolution spectrometry ever taken shows the planet's oldest terrain is rich in clay minerals, which formed in liquid water
19:47 16 July 2008
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Distant galaxies have magnetic fields apparently too strong to have formed by the dynamo mechanism thought to create them
10:02 19 July 2008
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The Milky Way's current record holder, Eta Carinae, has some competition in the Peony nebula star
22:13 15 July 2008
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Spacewalkers lay the groundwork for an extra berthing port at the space station for when the crew size doubles to six next year
20:53 15 July 2008
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The solar system's most dangerous rock, Apophis, could be more of a threat to Earth than thought
10:00 15 July 2008
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The large object 2005 FY9 is christened after an Easter Island deity – but naming the next 'plutoid' may be much more controversial
23:35 14 July 2008
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Astronomers have finished building a detector called ANTARES under the Mediterranean Sea – it will look through the Earth at the southern sky
16:37 14 July 2008
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Astronomers have found the remnants of a star close to Regulus, one of the brightest in the sky, which could explain its odd pumpkin shape
10:00 14 July 2008
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What will it take to persuade the moon to give up its secrets? Maybe a global space mission would do it, says Dana Mackenzie
17:00 11 July 2008
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The massive, rocky worlds – even those orbiting searingly close to their stars – may provide the right conditions for life
16:44 11 July 2008
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Similar bolts on Soyuz spacecraft are suspected of failing to fire during atmospheric re-entry, causing bumpy landings
15:35 11 July 2008
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Iran test-fired missiles for the second day in a row on Thursday – the US responded that it was ready to defend its allies
16:29 10 July 2008
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The planet's Great Red Spot and Red Spot Jr dismembered their little brother last week when it tried to come between them
Updated 15:49 14 July 2008
Most asteroids with moonlets started off as solitary bodies that split in two while sunbathing, new computer simulations suggest
18:00 09 July 2008
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An analysis of volcanic glass collected during the Apollo missions reveals the Moon's interior may hold as much water as Earth's
18:00 09 July 2008
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Iran warns it could retaliate against military strikes over its disputed nuclear activities, but analysts say its capabilities are limited
16:25 09 July 2008
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While observing our own Milky Way, Hubble accidentally imaged star clusters in a distant galaxy that appear puzzlingly red
23:55 08 July 2008
Experience the beauty of Saturn and its moons close-up with Carolyn Porco, head of the Cassini mission's imaging team
19:01 08 July 2008
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Returning Mars rocks to Earth could be our best hope of answering long-standing questions about Mars and whether the planet ever hosted life
17:29 07 July 2008
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What really happened in the first few minutes after the big bang? One element could hold the answer, says Matthew Chalmers
10:36 07 July 2008
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The supernovae that astronomers use to measure dark energy's affect on the universe's expansion have more complex origins than we thought
14:23 05 July 2008
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Discrete chunks rather than jets of plasma may be behind some of the universe's most powerful explosions
08:12 05 July 2008
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As early as the end of July 2008, NASA plans to test solar sail technology in orbit with a tiny spacecraft called NanoSail-D
12:53 04 July 2008
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The space shuttle may have to work past retirement age, after all.The US Congress is currently trying to set NASA's future mission and goals by drafting a bill called the NASA Authorization Act. A version of the bill, obtained by...
00:01 04 July 2008
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Data from the Messenger probe suggests Mercury has a molten core that is cooling and causing the whole planet to contract
20:44 03 July 2008
An extremely rare alignment between Earth and a pair of dense stars called pulsars reveals how bodies wobble in the presence of gravity
20:00 03 July 2008
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Ever had a burning desire to hunt for black holes? See how well you score in this black hole hunter game, developed by researchers at Cardiff University, UK, as part of the 2008 Royal Society Summer Exhibition in London.In the...
15:50 03 July 2008