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El Niño pattern can bring wet weather to UK one year later

[ad_1] Wet weather in London is made more likely by El Niño conditions a year earlier Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Weather patterns in

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Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids

[ad_1] Samples from asteroid Ryugu JAXA Future astronauts could eat a nutritionally perfect diet made from bacteria reared on ground-up asteroids, to produce a kind

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A dramatic return from space in Kazakhstan

[ad_1] You could be forgiven for thinking that this dramatic image is a still from a forthcoming science fiction epic, but it is actually the

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Parts of Antarctica are turning green at an ‘astounding’ rate

[ad_1] Vegetation on Ardley Island, close to the Antarctic Peninsula Charman Parts of Antarctica are turning green faster than expected, with researchers warning that climate

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Hera mission set to revisit asteroid Didymos after NASA’s DART redirection test

[ad_1] The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will study the asteroids Dimorphos aided by two CubeSats called Juventas and Milani ESA/ScienceOffice.org Two years after a

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How to rebuild democracy to truly harness the power of the people

[ad_1] Many of us entered this so-called super-election year with a sense of foreboding. So far, not much has happened to allay those fears. Russia’s

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Why we need to fight back against sexy Asian lady robots

[ad_1] Blade Runner: The Final Cut Entertainment Pictures/Alamy We have all come across dystopian visions of a bad future, like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

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Do chickens blush? And if they do, what makes them blush the most?

[ad_1] Blushing chickens People — humans — blush. Chickens aren’t entirely inhuman in that they, too, show emotions on their facial skin. Delphine Soulet at

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It’s parents who are anxious about smartphones, not their children

[ad_1] According to Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book The Anxious Generation, the proliferation of smartphones and subsequent exposure to social media among children and young people

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Stem cell transplant gives hope for treating age-related sight loss

[ad_1] Holes in the retina can make vision patchy or blurred CHRISTOPH BURGSTEDT/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A transplant of human stem cells sealed a hole in