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Technology

A trip into the past: Swiss watches, Korean ginseng and UK tea breaks

Old 51¶¯Âþ digs into the September archives and uncovers fears over digital wristwatches, a potent Korean stimulant and a British ban on 51¶¯Âþ

Regulars

US Vice President making a speech in front of a NASA logo, an American flag and a picture of the moon

Comment

Why an orbiting moon station is the worst idea of the new space age

Comment

Keri Bean

Space

How to drive the slowest vehicle in the solar system - on Mars

Features

Astronaut on a treadmill on the ISS

Space

Doctors will grow human tissue on the International Space Station

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The view from the ISS

Space

NASA's plans to end the ISS could put its Mars missions in danger

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Where does space begin? Here's why it's closer than you think

Space

Where does space begin? Here's why it's closer than you think

Comment

We might only see time because we can’t think in quantum physics

Physics

We might only see time because we can’t think in quantum physics

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UK announces plans for two spaceports that could see launches by 2021

Space

UK announces plans for two spaceports that could see launches by 2021

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Don't miss: amateur surgery, aqua-activism and a twisted Turing test

Life

Don't miss: amateur surgery, aqua-activism and a twisted Turing test

Culture

Artist impression

Space

Trio of stars shows Einstein is still right about relativity

A fundamental rule of general relativity has passed its most extreme test yet, courtesy of the movements of three distant stars

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Space

Australia is launching a space agency, but what will it do?

Analysis

Physics

How to think about... Time

Features

Space

Colonists could use genetically modified bacteria to settle Mars

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Space

Team moon vs team Mars: the battle over the future of NASA

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