Science
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Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders talks about Nasa’s orbit 50 years ago when he photographed Earth as it had never been seen before -
Military officer’s stable preserved under ash from eruption of Mount Vesuvius
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The rocket launch marked the space transportation company’s first national security space mission for the US -
If you’re still living life to the full at a time when many people expect you to be slowing down, we’d like to hear from you
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Trapped layer of cold air keeps water frozen in 50-mile-wide impact crater
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Scientists head to Weddell Sea to model changes to the shelf since the calving, in 2017, of the massive iceberg A68 -
Booming sector received nearly £1.6bn from investors in first eight months of 2018 -
Key issues
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The physicist’s former research student recalls their close relationship at Cambridge, the sheer might of his intellect, and how he once bored the great man to sleep
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At the COP24 conference, leaders lack the urgency felt by communities on the frontlines of a global threat -
From the response to Windrush to scientific breakthroughs, we need to remind ourselves what we are capable of, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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The solutions to today’s quiz and puzzle -
Test your knowledge of Tweet-speak, plus a social media maths puzzle -
The solution to today’s puzzle -
The skins they live in
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Prof Dame Jane Francis knows Antarctica better than most: she’s spent the majority of her career researching this icy landscape. Ian Sample talks to her about what it’s like to camp in Antarctica and what her findings can tell us about our future on this planet -
Nasa's Juno craft has captured giant, chaotic weather systems plus taken new measurements that will help build unprecedented map of the planet’s interior
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Tim Peake beat more than 8,000 applicants to the job. Here, he shares some images of the training he underwent, as seen in his new hardback, The Astronaut Selection Test Book
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Flight controllers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California react to the successful landing of InSight, a spacecraft designed to explore Mars's interior
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A plane with no moving parts in its propulsion system has successfully flown for a distance of 60 metres, proving that heavier-than-air flight is possible without jets or propellers
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Two decades ago, the Zarya module lifted off from Kazakhstan, ushering in a new era of high-tech cooperation in space
Year in review The science stories that shook 2018