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Dormant chasm has opened up and risks cutting the station off from the rest of the ice shelf
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Soyuz TMA-M used by British astronaut on journey to and from International Space Station will be shown at London museum
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Researchers in life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics share awards from prize founders Yuri Milner, Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin
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Asteroids and the moon contain vast quantities of natural resources, including water, that could be worth billions and fuel a new phase of space exploration
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Rare European copy of key mathematics text is going under hammer at Christie’s in New York with record guide price
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As a herding lifestyle practiced for millennia is threatened by contemporary climate change, archaeology offers a long-term perspective
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Condition is leading cause of death in UK in months before and weeks after childbirth, says audit led by medical Royal Colleges
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Carbon dating of remains unearthed in Beckery chapel near Glastonbury indicate monastic life dating back to fifth or early sixth centuries
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SpaceSpaceEarth's day lengthens by two milliseconds a century, astronomers findThe gradual slowing of the planet’s rotation is causing our day to lengthen, a comparison of nearly 3,000 years of celestial records has revealed
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BiologyBiologyZoology news: November’s animal antics from around the globe – in picturesA collection of zoological wonders from November 2016, featuring mobbing hyenas, speeding bats and crab power
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GeneticsGeneticsRobin McKie’s best science books of 2016The pick of this year’s science books put our health – and other obsessions – under the microscope
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Medical researchMedical researchPregnant women in UK told to watch for heart disease symptomsCondition is leading cause of death in UK in months before and weeks after childbirth, says audit led by medical Royal Colleges
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PsychologyPsychologyIt's impossible for robots to steal your job - no matter what the Daily Mail saysDean Burnett: It’s practically impossible to ‘steal’ a job, so why is the notion so persistent?
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PhysicsPhysicsBreakthrough prize awards $25m to researchers at 'Oscars of science'Researchers in life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics share awards from prize founders Yuri Milner, Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin
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Forget gilded mansions and super yachts. Among the tech elite, space exploration is now the ultimate status symbol
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More terrifying than Trump? The booming conspiracy culture of climate science denial
Graham ReadfearnConspiracy websites and hyperpartisan media outlets are building huge online audiences who want to hear climate change is a hoax -
Scientists fear that neonicotinoid manufacturers are copying tobacco industry tactics in a bid to end the moratorium on this devastating chemical
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Videos shared by Russians on social media show a meteor turning dark night into day in parts of Siberia on Tuesday
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More than 60 spectacular specimens of monkeys, apes, lemurs, lorises and bushbabies will go on show at the National Museum of Scotland from 9 December. The taxidermy was specially commissioned for the exhibition and is the first to show primates behaving as if they were in the wild
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The spacecraft was heading to the International Space Station when it disintegrated 190km up in the atmosphere over Siberia on Thursday due to an unspecified malfunction, the Russian space agency said
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From an Arctic expedition to working in a studio in the school of biology and environmental science at University College Dublin, Siobhan McDonald collaborates with researchers to broach subjects at the edges of current scientific knowledge
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Two scientists who dispute the theory of general relatitivity say scientists can now test their controversial idea
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The Schiaparelli lander that crashed on Mars last month flew into the red planet at 335mph after a computer misjudged its altitude
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Marcus du Sautoy explains Riemann’s formula for calculating how many prime numbers there are – and why it is so important to online banking
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Earth's day lengthens by two milliseconds a century, astronomers find