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A fine-tuned universe may be controversial but can't be ignored

Life

A fine-tuned universe may be controversial but can't be ignored

The suggestion that our universe has physical laws and constants inexplicably just right for life is in the ascendant. Expect a heated debate, says Geraint Lewis

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SpaceX launch on 23 June

Space

SpaceX has launched and landed two rockets in one weekend

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eggs of different sizes and colours

Life

Bird eggs may be shaped by the way their mother flies

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telescope

Space

Kepler finds 219 new exoplanets and 10 are rocky and Earth-like

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Mission control

Space

The bandwidth black hole that will kill Elon Musk’s Mars dream

Analysis

NASA revives 50-year-old idea to recycle space stations in orbit

Space

NASA revives 50-year-old idea to recycle space stations in orbit

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Robots in Into the Unknown exhibition

Space

This science fiction trip is delightful, confusing – and risky

Culture

Plate of space food

Space

Crumb-free bread will mean ISS astronauts can now bake in space

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Parker probe

Space

NASA is right to pay homage to the living for the first time

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General relativity passes test at Milky Way's central black hole

Space

General relativity passes test at Milky Way's central black hole

Stars orbiting the supermassive black hole have been used to test Einstein’s famous theory for the first time, with no sign found of a fifth fundamental force

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Space

SpaceX launches first reused Dragon capsule full of research

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Space

LIGO’s third detection hints at how black hole binaries are born

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Space

Old Scientist: Space travel? Waste of money

Regulars

Life

Send an ear: Listening for sounds of life in the solar system

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