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A moon base

Space

It was always crazy to shoot for Mars before colonising the moon

Common sense is prevailing in human space exploration, and the moon is back as the place we need to colonise before a riskier trip to Mars, says Paul Marks

Comment

A woman reading

Space

Culture picks: Read your way into (almost) any science subject

Culture

A man in a lab coat at a desk

Humans

Most science papers turn out to be wrong. It’s time to fix that

Comment

Model of universe structure

Space

Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found

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Ordinary red roof tiles against a white sky

Technology

Light-filtering paint cools your home when exposed to hot sun

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Researchers sitting at their desks celebrate a positive result

Humans

Nobel prizes would be better without all the fame and fortune

Comment

Person with cosmos where their head should be

Technology

We can’t ever know whether or not our universe is a simulation

Analysis

Atomic clock

Physics

The most precise atomic clock ever made is a cube of quantum gas

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The sun's disc

Space

The sun's energy could speed up dark matter so we can detect it

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prime artwork

Physics

Riddle of the primes: why do they come in pairs?

Why prime numbers clump the way they do is one of the most maddening problems in mathematics – and thanks to an unlikely hero we’re starting to crack it

Features

Physics

Gravitational wave discoverers win physics Nobel prize

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Space

Methane burps on young Mars helped it keep its liquid water

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Technology

Google quantum computer test shows breakthrough is within reach

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Technology

Two-colour pixels let you draw pair of images in the same space

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