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Students search desert for lost rocket after attempted launch to space

Space

Students search desert for lost rocket after attempted launch to space

Volunteers are scouring the Mojave desert in California for a missing rocket and the onboard data that will prove whether it successfully reached space or not

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Technology

Super-heatproof computer memory survives temperatures over 500°C

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image of the galaxy cluster El Gordo

Space

Distant galaxies are gobbling up an unexpected amount of gas

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Northern Lights over Culloden, Scotland

Space

How to see the northern lights this winter

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Back to the Future

Comment

The 10 best time travel movies ever made, according to a metaphysicist

Culture

Artist's concept of Makemake

Space

Eris and Makemake might be hiding unexpected oceans of liquid water

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Space

Data leak means anyone can see when astronauts urinate on the ISS

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Herbig-Haro 211

Space

JWST has taken an astonishing image of a baby star with powerful jets

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E036X7 Constellation Cygnus (Cyg), one of the modern constellations from

Space

It's a great time to see the Cygnus constellation – here's how

Regulars

Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/Shutterstock (14061651br) Emmerdale - Ep 9774 & Ep 9775 Tuesday 5th September 2023 Despite their past hostility, it seems that Cain Dingle, as played by Jeff Hordley, and Caleb, as played by Will Ash, are finally headed in the right direction. Caleb makes his entry into the family official with a drink from the Dingle welly. 'Emmerdale' TV Show, Episodes Ep 9761-9778 UK - Aug 2023 Emmerdale, is a British ITV long running soap opera, known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989, set in Emmerdale, a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. It was created by Kevin Laffan and was first broadcast on 16 October 1972. It was originally produced by ITV Yorkshire and is still filmed in their Leeds studios.

Physics

How soap operas can help us understand special relativity

Time scales in my favourite soap opera Emmerdale make no sense, but maybe this helps avid fans to normalise the concept of time dilation, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Space

Reusable rocket built by students is about to launch to space

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Space

The earliest black holes seen by JWST appear to be unusually massive

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Space

Why it's a big deal that India beat Russia in the new race to the moon

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Mathematics

Mathematicians find 12,000 solutions for fiendish three-body problem

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