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solar system

Young Saturn gave Jupiter the building blocks for its big moons

Space

Young Saturn gave Jupiter the building blocks for its big moons

After Jupiter formed, it likely had no nearby material to build moons. Young Saturn may have tossed rocks at the gas giant that grew into its four biggest moons

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Life on toxic Venus? Acid-loving microbes could thrive in clouds

Space

Life on toxic Venus? Acid-loving microbes could thrive in clouds

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An electron micrograph of ovarian cancer cells

Health

Ovarian cancer vaccine improves women’s survival rates

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Oral bacteria

Health

Autoimmune disorder lupus may be triggered by body’s bacteria

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Jupiter's hefty twin found just 12 light years away

Space

Jupiter's hefty twin found just 12 light years away

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Space

Mission Icarus: Inside the daring plan to touch the sun

Features

Mercury's long-lost cousin found in distant planetary system

Space

Mercury's long-lost cousin found in distant planetary system

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Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR

Life

Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps getting less great and less red

Space

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps getting less great and less red

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Dwarf planet Ceres has a water cycle but it’s not like Earth’s

Space

Dwarf planet Ceres has a water cycle but it’s not like Earth’s

Ceres, a distant dwarf planet, hosts sheets of ice just under its surface. In the summer, some of this ice may sublimate and coat shadowy crater walls in frost

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Space

The sun’s mysteriously hot corona may be due to invisible plasma

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Space

A mountain range on Saturn’s moon Iapetus may be a former ring

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Health

Genetically engineered cells can seek and destroy brain cancer

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Space

The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth

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