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The US air force admitted to deploying weapons in space. Don’t expect the White House to explain why | Space

In Hollywood at least, space weapons are a relatively simple concept. The good guys, from Captain Kirk and his crew in Star Trek, to...

‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias | Geography

Three cartographers have spoken of their astonishment at the UN’s near-universal adoption of a map they created to more accurately show the sizes of...

‘Very messy eaters’: scientists solve the mystery of when black holes ‘burp’ | Space

Scientists have solved the mystery of when black holes “burp” – when the astronomical bodies launch jets after feeding on stars, blasting material enormous...

Teflon diet, garlic milk and zebra cows triumph at 2025 Ig Nobel prizes | Ig Nobel prizes

For decades scientists, doctors and public health officials have battled to solve the obesity crisis. Now researchers have won an Ig Nobel prize for...

Musk’s fellowship of Royal Society in doubt after rally address

Elon Musk's controversial comments at the Unite the Kingdom rally in London have raised doubts over his fellowship of the Royal Society - the...

Scientists pinpoint the brain’s internal mileage clock

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsGetty ImagesScientists have for the first time located the "mileage clock" inside a brain - by recording the brain activity...

Chimps ‘lager a day’ in ripe fruit fuels drunken monkey theory

Elizabeth Dawson and Helen BriggsBBC climate and science teamAleksey MaroUnderstanding more about the diet of wild chimps could help explain human attraction to alcohol...

Is a memory palace actually useful? It helped me memorize the first 20 digits of pi | Well actually

There’s a scene from the 2010s series Sherlock that I think about a lot. Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) visits his “mind palace” to figure...

Why the autumn equinox isn’t actually when day and night are equal | Summer

So that’s it for the summer. The season comes to a close for us in the northern hemisphere this week on 22 September as...

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