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Technology

AI pilot helps US air force with tactics in simulated operations

The ALPHA system was designed as a computer opponent in air combat simulations but is now working with pilots and could one day be used to fly real planes

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Window to hell: Io's strongest volcano changes face as we watch

Earth

Window to hell: Io's strongest volcano changes face as we watch

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First ever lightning-mapping satellite set for take off

Earth

First ever lightning-mapping satellite set for take off

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EM drive

Space

Is new talk of interstellar drive too good to be true?

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Space

China's space station now has insects, weeds and rice on board

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sputnik

Space

The inventions of our lifetime, picked by the people who know

Features

Europa

Life

Spacecraft could taste Europa's sea by sampling its atmosphere

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Monday's bright supermoon will be closest to Earth in 68 years

Space

Monday's bright supermoon will be closest to Earth in 68 years

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beagle

Space

Beagle Mars probe probably didn’t crash, new analysis shows

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I watched a rover search for ancient life on Mars – I mean, Utah

Life

I watched a rover search for ancient life on Mars – I mean, Utah

The UK Space Agency is test-driving the hunt for life on Mars by remotely operating a rover in the US and beaming back data from its search

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Life

Speedy bat flies at 160km/h, smashing bird speed record

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Space

Exoplanet hunters are missing 75 per cent of two-star worlds

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Space

Mickey Mouse ears may explain universe’s biggest explosions

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Space

China's Long March 5 heavy-lift rocket takes first flight

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