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2DEWC6E Beijing, China. 2nd Dec, 2020. This image taken from video animation at Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) shows Chang'e-5 spacecraft landing on the moon. China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft successfully landed on the near side of the moon late Tuesday and sent back images, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced. Credit: Jin Liwang/Xinhua/Alamy Live News

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Moon rocks collected by the Chang’e 5 mission have water in them

China’s Chang’e 5 mission landed on the moon in 2020 and sent back samples of dust and rocks, which have been found to contain water – but not very much of it

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Why the next big solar storm might hit Earth without warning

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Pairs of giant planets may make their star systems ultra-habitable

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A light micrograph of plaques in someone with lupus

Health

Discovery of a genetic cause of lupus could lead to new treatments

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This high resolution image of the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, reveals a surface criss-crossed by multiple sets of ridges and fractures

Space

We now know how the mysterious ridges covering Europa’s surface formed

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Magnetosphere

Physics

Earth’s magnetosphere replicated in miniature using lasers and magnets

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Nerve demyelination. Coloured transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a section through a Schwann cell and a nerve fibre, showing the early collapse of its myelin sheath. Myelin (red) is an insulating fatty layer that surrounds the nerve fibre (axon, orange), increasing the speed at which nerve impulses travel. It is formed when a Schwann cell (green) wraps around the fibre, depositing layers of myelin between each coil. Demyelination occurs in nerve disorders such as multiple sclerosis (MS). Patches (lesions) of myelin sheath are destroyed and nerve function is impaired. Magnification: x3800 when printed 10 centimetres wide.

Health

MS reversed by transplanted immune cells that fight Epstein-Barr virus

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Main ? Voyager 2 view of Neptune, captured in August 1989. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

Space

Neptune has been slowly cooling for 15 years when it should be warming

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Inside a mouse pancreatic tumour and the red bits are the Listeria bacteria delivering the tetanus to the tumour cells.

Health

Pancreatic cancer treated in mice by loading tumour cells with tetanus

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A man and a woman

Health

We seem to find people with a strong immune system more attractive

Previous research has shown that we are attracted to the body odour of people with better health, and now it seems the strength of your immune system is reflected in your face

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Space

Mars may have been habitable millions of years later than we thought

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We may now know why Uranus and Neptune are different shades of blue

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Health

Vitamin D supplements really do reduce risk of autoimmune disease

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Leigh Fletcher interview: Why we urgently need a mission to Neptune

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