As countries begin an age of Martian exploration, planetary protection advocates insist we must be careful of interplanetary contamination
It’s the only such monument to be discovered on the Isle of Arran.
Who has an even bigger grin than ten years ago? This goofy-looking crater on Mars.
It depends on your definition of human.
The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to many interdisciplinary projects which benefit from the synergy of a wide range of expertise available at the institute. One such project is the study of black holes that could have formed in the early universe, before stars and galaxies were born.
Just when we thought octopuses couldn’t be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the planet.
Technological progress owes much to our scientific understanding of the materials we use to build the world around us, from longer-lasting cell-phone batteries to new medicines.
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Almost a millennium ago, a major upheaval occurred in Earth’s atmosphere: a giant cloud of sulphur-rich particles flowed throughout the stratosphere, turning skies dark for months or even years, before ultimately falling down to Earth.
Kernowite is a new mineral that has been found only in an old specimen collected at a single location in Cornwall, UK.
