science
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Ian Sample talks to Stuart Clarke about his new book exploring exoplanets and alien worlds, and how to find another Earth
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This week in science British astronaut recalled the moment he feared his spacecraft’s parachute had failed to open, discovery of ‘baby’ planets and moral algorithm of driverless cars
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Dutch researchers successfully raise radishes, peas, rye and tomatoes in soil mixed to match that of the red planet – giving hope that settlers could grow food
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Big, muscular and with bony skeleton and relatively smaller wings, so could Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons fly if they were real?
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Advances in artificial intelligence could give us digital immortality, distilling a lifetime’s worth of online presence into a deathless version of ourselves
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Martin Robbins: To find out whether the ‘wisdom of crowds’ is real, I asked people on Twitter to guess the weight of my scotch. With Britons voting in a referendum to leave the EU, their responses speak volumes about the ability of populations to find the right answers
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Generation X author offers €5,000 prize to person who most closely resembles red-haired painter
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Pumping of groundwater blamed for causing soil to collapse as development roars ahead above, with railways among infrastructure at risk, say scientists
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SpaceSpaceLab notes: Tim Peake on falling back to Earth, 'baby' planets and driverless carsThis week in science British astronaut recalled the moment he feared his spacecraft’s parachute had failed to open, discovery of ‘baby’ planets and moral algorithm of driverless cars
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BiologyBiologyBiology would leave the Game of Thrones dragons groundedAs part of the Game of Thrones blog carnival, Dave Hone takes a look at whether Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons could fly if they were real
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GeneticsGeneticsDouglas Coupland seeks Van Gogh lookalikes for art projectGeneration X author offers €5,000 prize to person who most closely resembles red-haired painter
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Medical researchMedical researchGenetic link uncovered in sudden cardiac deaths in young peopleAustralian researchers find 27% of unexplained deaths have a genetic mutation, findings which could open the way for preventative treatment for existing family
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PsychologyPsychologyA must-read book? Go on, make meFaced with rave reviews of musicals, films, books and plays, why does Oliver Burkeman run a mile?
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PhysicsPhysicsThe search for planet Earth's twin – podcastIan Sample talks to Stuart Clarke about his new book exploring exoplanets and alien worlds, and how to find another Earth
in depth
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Independent UK mission hopes to analyse the atmospheres of distant worlds using off-the-shelf components
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opinion
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Loose canon: The EU referendum has led some to claim big decisions should only be made by intellectuals and elites. But gut instincts should play a huge part in how we vote
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How technology made us hyper-capable – and helpless
Jonathan CoopersmithTech enables us to do more while understanding less. That’s fine, until there’s a glitch – which is why the US navy is teaching sailors how to navigate by the stars -
pictures & video
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Whether at Stonehenge or in their back gardens, Guardian readers shared their pictures of the glorious strawberry moon during the summer solstice
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Tim Peake says adjusting to life back on Earth after spending six months in space is like having the world’s worst hangover
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After six months in space, the Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko, Nasa’s Tim Kopra and Major Tim Peake leave the International Space Station in a Soyuz capsule and land in Kazakhstan
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Soyuz capsule returns British, American and Russian astronauts to Earth after 186 days in space
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SpaceX rocket’s reusable main-stage booster crashes onto Atlantic platform, where scientists had hoped it would land safely
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A team of scientists at the National Centers for Environmental Information in Boulder, Colorado have produced a digital atlas of the Earth that shows the levels of light pollution
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British astronaut Tim Peake says it will take several months to fully adjust to life back on earth
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Will your driverless car be willing to kill you to save the lives of others?