BBC I step into the booth with some trepidation. I am about to be subjected to strobe lighting while music plays – as part of a research project trying to understand what makes us truly human. It’s an experience that […]
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Gwyndaf Hughes Science Videographer and Producer SURF A vast cavern shielded from the outside world will house sensitive equipment to detect tiny changes in sub-atomic particles Inside a laboratory nestled above the mist of the forests of south Dakota, scientists
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Watch: Moment SpaceX launches rocket with crew to relieve stranded astronauts SpaceX has launched a rocket carrying a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a plan to bring astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams home.
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BBC This lab-grown Wagyu steak is ready to eat, but can’t be sold in the UK because it has not yet been approved Meat, dairy and sugar grown in a lab could be on sale in the UK for human
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BBC As a Ryanair flight from London approached Vilnius, Lithuania, on 17 January, its descent was suddenly aborted. Just minutes from touching down, the aircraft’s essential Global Positioning System (GPS) suffered an unexplained interference, triggering an emergency diversion. The Boeing
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Nasa says that the astronauts stuck on the International Space Station will have to wait even longer to get home. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were due to be back after just a week when they blasted off in June.
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NASA Nasa’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft have been criticised for being expensive and slow to develop Nasa has announced a further delay to its plans to send astronauts back to the Moon. The agency’s administrator, Bill
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BBC There’s nothing new about genetic engineering. By cross-breeding plants and animals, our Stone Age ancestors realised they could boost the amount of food they produced. Modern genetics has enabled scientists to do much more: to make precise, targeted changes
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