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Artists impression of bacteria

Microbial bioink makes 3D printed materials

... drugs, removing toxins from the air and regulating its own growth.  “This is part of a general effort to ... Communications.  Biological systems like a tree or our own body can respond to their environment, for example  by ... properties of toothpaste, which is firm enough to hold its own weight when resting, but will flow much like a liquid ...

Artist's impression of the James Webb Telescope

The Future of Space Exploration

... the International Space Station, so it's really just our own imagination and technology that limits us. I think it ...

Image of galaxy Henize 2-10 with cut out of black hole forming stars

Black hole seen forming stars

... In astronomical terms, that is only a moment ago: our own Sun is a thousand times older. This phenomenon has been ...

60 years of NASA

... out from the lunar lander, Michael Collins was setting his own record. Left orbiting the moon alone in Columbia, he ...

"The Blue Marble" is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Why Earth isn’t a Watery World

... of star, but helps to fill in our understanding of how our own system evolved. Despite thinking of Earth as a “Blue ...

An asteroid shooting towards the Earth.

How to protect Earth from asteroid strikes

... near an aseroid, deflecting the trajectory through its own gravitational pull. Asteroid laser ablation - using a ...

A large astronomical telescope against a dark starry sky.

Taking a new look at old stars

... very little metal in it, making it a very early star. Our own Sun is only about 4.6 billion years old. Studying old ...