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Earth

The paradox powering Earth's magnetic field

Our planet’s protective force field appears to be billions of years older than the mechanism that got it going. So what really made Earth magnetic?

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Asteroids around a star

Space

‘Alien megastructure’ signal may be due to star eating a planet

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Radio telescopes

Space

Cosmic radio bursts tracked to home galaxy for first time

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Life

Grow with the flow: How electricity kicks life into shape

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quantum physics

Physics

Physicists can't agree on what the quantum world looks like

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Physics

Antigravity: Discovering if antimatter falls upwards

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ALPHA experiment at CERN

Physics

Antimatter atom trapped and measured with a laser for first time

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Galaxy cluster with lensing effects

Space

First test of rival to Einstein's gravity kills off dark matter

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Nanocrystal night-vision specs will let you see in infrared

Technology

Nanocrystal night-vision specs will let you see in infrared

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Winton Gallery of maths

Technology

Imagination not interaction: inside London’s new maths gallery

The Science Museum’s arty mathematics gallery may be full of treasures but it won’t win new friends among those who aren’t already maths junkies

Culture

Physics

The fragile state of scientific glassblowing

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Space

LIGO should more than double its gravitational wave haul in 2017

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Earth

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Earth

Animal magnetism: Why dogs do their business pointing north

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