During his second-ever spacewalk, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano felt water creeping across his face – and ...

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Luca Parmitano is an astronaut in the European Astronaut Corps for the European Space Agency (ESA). He has spent 366 days in ...

As the New Scientist Book Club reads Kim Stanley Robinson’s science-fiction novel in April, George Bass digs into why this ...

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A computer language designed to robustly verify mathematical theorems and expose logical flaws has been turned towards a ...

Pieces of jawbone and teeth found in Egypt have been identified as a new early ape species named Masripithecus moghraensis, ...