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'Marsquake' hunter prepares to land on the red planet

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

'Marsquakes' reveal red planet's hidden geology

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

'Rocket-on-a-rail' prepares to launch satellite

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-10-30

'Snakeskin' Pluto revealed in planetary close-up

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-09-24

'Wandering stones' of Death Valley explained

scientific article published in Nature

'We're in one of the cataclysmic times of change': first female NSF director on discrimination and COVID-19

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

2016 in news: The science events that shaped the year

scientific article published in Nature

2017 in news: The science events that shaped the year

scientific article published in Nature

2018 in news: The science events that shaped the year

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

2020 beyond COVID: the other science events that shaped the year

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

365 days: 2013 in review

scientific article published in December 2013

365 days: 2014 in science

scientific article published in December 2014

365 days: The science events that shaped 2015.

scientific article published in December 2015

3D ocean map tracks ecosystems in unprecedented detail

scientific article

A back seat for basic science ⬇️

scientific article published on April 18, 2013

A cabinet of illegal curiosities

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-11-15

A deeper understanding of the Grand Canyon

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

A network to track Caribbean hazards ⬇️

scientific article published on May 23, 2013

A quantum world arising from many ordinary ones

scientific article published in Nature

A tale of two dwarf planets

scientific article published in Nature

A year on Mars: How NASA’s Perseverance hit a geological jackpot

scientific article published on 17 February 2022

ALMA observatory halts work amid labour dispute

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-08-26

ALMA strike stirs up Chilean labour unions

scientific article published in September 2013

Acidic oceans linked to greatest extinction ever

scientific article published in Nature

Afghan landslide was 'an accident waiting to happen'

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-05-06

Ageing satellites put crucial sea-ice climate record at risk.

scientific article published in October 2017

Alcohol and science: the grapes of rock

scientific article

Algae are melting away the Greenland ice sheet.

scientific article published in July 2016

Alien life could thrive in ancient star clusters

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-01-06

Ancient supervolcanoes revealed on Mars

scientific article (publication date: 2 October 2013)

Antarctic clouds studied for first time in five decades

scientific article published in Nature

Antarctic coast meltdown could trigger ice-sheet collapse

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-11-02

Antarctica's impossible peaks come into view

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-02-24

Arctic river flood plains are home to hidden carbon

scientific article published in Nature

Arctic scientists iced out by US-India radar mission

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Arctic sea ice continues its downward spiral

scientific article published in Nature

Arctic sea ice hits second-lowest level on record

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

Arecibo telescope wins reprieve from US government

journal article; published in Nature on 2017-11-16

Argentina's mega-storms attract army of meteorologists

scientific article published in Nature

Artificial intelligence nails predictions of earthquake aftershocks

scientific article published in Nature

Asteroid plan looks rocky ⬇️

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-07-16

Asteroid's bumpiness threatens US plan to return a sample to Earth

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Astronaut twin study hints at stress of space travel

scientific article published in Nature

Astronaut twins study raises questions about genetic privacy

scientific article published in Nature

Astronaut twins study spots subtle genetic changes caused by space travel

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

Astronauts have conducted nearly 3,000 science experiments aboard the ISS

scientific article published on 03 November 2020

Astronomers propose giant space telescope to replace Hubble

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-07-06

Astronomers spot distant world in Solar System’s far reaches

scientific article published in Nature

Astronomers spot first fast radio burst in the Milky Way

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Astronomers spy most distant Solar System object ever

scientific article published in Nature

Astronomy impasse: What's next for the Thirty Meter Telescope?

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Astronomy roiled again by sexual-harassment allegations

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-01-12

Astronomy: Death of a comet

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-02-19

Atlantic hurricanes' rapid growth spurts are intensifying

scientific article published in 2017

Atlantic observatory faces rocky future

scientific article published in Nature

Atom & cosmos: Elusive solar neutrinos spotted: Detection reveals more about reaction that powers sun

Attack of the extreme floods

scientific article published in Nature

Attack of the extreme floods

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

Barley fuelled farmers' spread onto Tibetan plateau

scientific article published in Nature

Berkeley astronomer in sexual harassment case to resign

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-10-14

Berkeley releases report on astronomer sexual-harassment case

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-12-19

Berkeley sexual harassment case sparks outrage

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-10-14

Biden bids again to boost science spending — but faces long odds

scientific article published on 28 March 2022

Binary star to spill celestial secrets

scientific article published in Nature

Biography of a space telescope: Voices of Hubble

scientific article published in April 2015

Bizarre star could host a neutron star in its core

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-01-07

Boaty McBoatfleet: British ship joins wave of rugged polar vessels

scientific article published on 18 May 2016

Bright spots on Ceres could be active ice

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-03-17

Budget offers recovery hope

scientific article

California observatory wins back funding

scientific article published in Nature

California quake puts warning system in the spotlight

scientific article

Can NASA really return people to the Moon by 2024?

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Canada weighs scientific consequences of moving a mega-telescope

journal article; published in Nature on 2017-05-30

Cassini crashes into Saturn - but could still deliver big discoveries

scientific article published in September 2017

Cassini probe sniffs out strange radiation belt inside Saturn’s rings

scientific article published in Nature

Cassini's 13 years of stunning Saturn science - in pictures

scientific article published in August 2017

Chile quake defies expectations

scientific article published in April 2014

China aims for the Moon

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-11-26

China's Moon rover awake but immobile

scientific article published in Nature

Chinese crew extract first rock from beneath East Antarctic ice in 60 years

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Claims of Earth's oldest fossils tantalize researchers

scientific article published in Nature

Climate change — four decades of missed opportunities

scientific article published on 11 April 2022

Climate change: losing Greenland

scientific article published in Nature

Climate first for Obama transition team

scientific article published in Nature

Climate geoengineering schemes come under fire

scientific article published in Nature

Clouds get high on climate change

scientific article published in Nature

Cloudy skies on nearby super-Earth

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-12-31

Comet buzzes Mars

scientific article published in Nature

Comet expected to survive close Sun encounter

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-10-09

Comet lander's location still eludes scientists

scientific article published in Nature

Controversial Thirty Meter Telescope gets go-ahead to build in Hawaii

scientific article published in September 2017

Controversial mega-telescope set to begin construction in Hawaii

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Corals worldwide hit by bleaching

scientific article published in Nature

Coronavirus pandemic threatens launch of world's most-expensive telescope

scientific article published on 24 March 2020

Cosmic collision created 'snowman' MU69 - the farthest world ever explored

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Cosmic confetti celebrates Hubble’s 25th birthday

scientific article published in Nature

Cosmic rays may threaten space-weather satellite

scientific article published on 28 October 2016

Costly SOFIA telescope faces termination after years of problems

scientific article published on 28 April 2022

Countdown to Mars: three daring missions take aim at the red planet

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Crunch time for Canada's role in mega-telescope

scientific article published in March 2015

Curiosity rover sniffs Martian methane

scientific article published in Nature

Cyanide cloud puts a chill in Titan's air

scientific article published in Nature

Daring Antarctic rescue mission sets off for South Pole

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-06-21

Dead X-ray satellite reveals galaxy cluster surprise

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-07-06

Deadly Mexico quakes not linked

scientific article

Death-defying NASA mission will make humanity’s closest approach to the Sun

scientific article published in Nature

Delays mount for NASA’s $8-billion Hubble successor

scientific article published in Nature

Detectors zero in on Earth’s heat ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 April 2013

Dinosaur-killing asteroid hit at just the wrong time

scientific article published in Nature

Distant planet weighed using clues from starlight

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-12-19

Does innovation always come from science?

scientific article published in Nature

Does it matter if Donald Trump has a science adviser?

scientific article published in Nature

Double the fun: Mars scientists push NASA to send rock-harvesting rover to two sites

scientific article published in Nature

Dramatic sea-ice melt caps tough Arctic summer

scientific article published in September 2019

Drilling hit by budget woes

scientific article published in Nature

Drilling project probes New Zealand's risk of killer quakes

scientific article published in March 2018

Drowned tundra emits more carbon

scientific article published in Nature

Dust reveals ancient origin for Saturn's rings

scientific article published in Nature

Dwarf planet stretches Solar System's edge

scientific article published in Nature

ET search: Look for the aliens looking for Earth

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-03-01

Earth monitoring: not enough eyes on the prize

scientific article published in December 2007

Earth science: Under the volcano

scientific article published in December 2013

Earth scientists push ambitious project to map Canada's geology

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Earth-sized exoplanet in 'habitable zone' is one of closest yet to our world

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Earth-sized planet around nearby star is astronomy dream come true

scientific article published in Nature

Earth: Volcanic bromine destroyed ozone: Blasts emitted gas that erodes protective atmospheric layer

scholarly article by Alexandra Witze published 4 July 2012 in Science News

Earth’s lost history of planet-altering eruptions revealed

scientific article published in Nature

Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why

scientific article published in Nature

East Antarctica is losing ice faster than anyone thought

scientific article published in Nature

Effort to wrangle geoscience data faces uncertain future

scientific article (publication date: 19 October 2016)

Einstein's gravitational waves found at last

scientific article (publication date: 11 February 2016)

Embattled Thirty Meter Telescope scores big win in Hawaii's highest court

scientific article published in Nature

Embattled Thirty Meter Telescope scores big win in Hawaii’s highest court

scientific article published in Nature

Embattled mega-telescope gets back-up site in Canary Islands

scientific article (publication date: 31 October 2016)

Energy alternatives: Electricity without carbon

scientific article published in August 2008

English sea walls get wired to measure flood risk in real time

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Enigmatic clouds illuminated

scientific article published in Nature

Environment: Ozone loss makes subtropics rainier: Antarctic hole changes weather patterns almost to equator

scientific article published in 2011

Europa's peek-a-boo plumes confirmed

scientific article published in Nature

Europe eyes fleet of tiny CO-monitoring satellites to track global emissions

scientific article published in Nature

Evidence grows for giant planet on fringes of Solar System.

scientific article

Exclusive: Documents reveal NASA’s internal struggles over renaming Webb telescope

scientific article published on 25 March 2022

Exoplanet bounty includes most Earth-like worlds yet

scientific article published in Nature

Exoplanet hunters rethink search for alien life

scientific article published in November 2017

Experimental volcanoes make a blast

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-05-13

Extreme heatwaves: surprising lessons from the record warmth

scientific article published on 4 August 2022

Fifty years after astronauts left the Moon, they are going back. Why?

scientific article published on 12 December 2022

Financial blow for Alaskan volcano monitoring

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-05-22

Fingernail absolves lead poisoning in death of Arctic explorer

scientific article published in Nature

Firenadoes and drifting embers: The secrets of extreme wildfires

scientific article published in 2019

First 'marsquake' detected on red planet

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

First dinosaurs arose in an evolutionary eye-blink

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-12-07

First hints of waves on Titan's seas

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-03-17

First possible exomoon spotted

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-12-23

Five Solar System sights NASA should visit

scientific article published in Nature

Fledgling space industry resolute after fatal crash

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-11-04

Florida forecasts sinkhole burden

scientific article published in December 2013

Four revelations from the Webb telescope about distant galaxies

scientific article published in 2022

Fresh look at Apollo Moon rocks reveals Solar System secrets

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Funding edict for mission has NASA over a barrel

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Future US megadroughts set to be the worst in 1,000 years

scientific article published in Nature

Gas giant spins a surprise

scientific article published in Nature

Gender bias found in Earth-science society journals

scientific article published in Nature

Geoengineering schemes under scrutiny

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-08-07

Geologists spy an eighth continent: Zealandia

scientific article published in Nature

Geologists take drill to Triassic park

scientific article published in October 2013

Geology: The start of the world as we know it

scientific article published in Nature

Giant cracks push imperilled Antarctic glacier closer to collapse

scientific article published in 2021

Giant tsunamis washed over ancient Mars

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-05-19

Glitch interrupts space mission to map Earth’s gravity

scientific article published in Nature

Global 5G wireless deal threatens weather forecasts

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Global 5G wireless networks threaten weather forecasts.

scientific article published in May 2019

Grand Canyon is not so ancient

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-01-26

Gravity map uncovers sea-floor surprises

scientific article published in Nature

Gravity signals could speedily warn of big quakes and save lives

journal article; published in Nature on 2017-11-30

Green fuels blast off.

scientific article

Greenland once lost nearly all its ice — and could again

scientific article published in Nature

Greenland rocks suggest Earth's magnetic field is older than we thought

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Gut-wrenching photos document Arecibo telescope's collapse

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Half of stars lurk outside galaxies

scientific article published in Nature

Has Biden followed the science? What researchers say

scientific article published on 20 January 2022

Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin? ⬇️

Hawaii law could break years-long astronomy impasse

scientific article published on 14 July 2022

Hawaii prunes Mauna Kea telescope hub

scientific article published in Nature

Hawaii telescope protest shuts down 13 observatories on Mauna Kea

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Hawaiian court revokes permit for planned mega-telescope

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-12-03

Hawaiian telescope fight prompts new rules for Mauna Kea

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-05-27

Hawaiian telescope project seeks way forward amid protests

scientific article published in Nature

Hawaiian telescope project sparks protests at astronomy meeting

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-08-04

Hawaiian-language experts make their mark on the Solar System

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

High-Pressure Metamorphic Mineralogy of the Martian Crust with Implications for Density and Seismic Profiles ⬇️

journal article from 'Meteoritics & Planetary Science' published in 2020

High-flying pseudosatellites get their day in the sun.

scientific article published in February 2019

Highlights of Hubble

scientific article published in Nature

Hints of hot springs found on Saturnian moon

scientific article published in Nature

Hints of huge buried impact craters reported in Australia

scientific article published in Nature

History of chemistry: in their element

scientific article published in August 2005

How AI and satellites could help predict volcanic eruptions

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

How JWST revolutionized astronomy in 2022 ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 December 2022

How Trump’s science cuts could hurt states that voted for him

journal article; published in Nature on 2017-05-18

How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

How long do neutrons live? Physicists close in on decades-old puzzle

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

How satellite 'megaconstellations' will photobomb astronomy images

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

How should science funders deal with sexual harassers?

scientific article published in February 2016

How space missions snatch pieces of other worlds and bring them back to Earth

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

How the West was built

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-04-03

How the fight over a Hawaii mega-telescope could change astronomy

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

How to counter 'manels' and make scientific meetings more inclusive

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

How to protect US science from political meddling after Trump

scientific article published on 11 January 2022

How two intruders from interstellar space are upending astronomy

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Hubble sees light bending around nearby star

journal article; published in Nature on 2017-06-07

Hubble spots water spurting from Europa

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-12-12

Hubble telescope maps Voyager probes’ cosmic road trip

scientific article published in Nature

Hubble telescope spies water raining on distant world

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Hubble telescope stops collecting data after mechanical fault

scientific article published in Nature

Hydrogen cloud blows off Mars

scientific article published in Nature

Iceland drilling project aims to unearth how islands form

scientific article published in July 2017

Icelandic volcano erupts

scientific article published in Nature

Icelandic volcano shakes ominously

scientific article published in Nature

Icelandic volcano stuns scientists

scientific article published in October 2014

Iconic Antarctic geology lab gets the boot

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-06-17

Icy Enceladus hides a watery ocean

scientific article published in Nature

Icy heart could be key to Pluto's strange geology

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

Icy volcanoes may dot Pluto's surface

scientific article published in Nature

Image software spots links in tattoo ink

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-06-09

Images expose thunder in exquisite detail

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-05-05

In Japan, small shakes presage big quakes

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-01-28

Intriguing geology of Ceres revealed in new pictures

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-06-22

Investigation begins after fatal Virgin Galactic crash

scientific article published in Nature

Is lightning striking the Arctic more than ever before?

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Is this telescope-on-a-plane worth its pricetag?

scientific article published on 10 April 2020

Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the forgotten volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark

book

Jane Lubchenco

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-03-24

Japanese X-ray satellite loses communication with Earth

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-03-27

Japanese asteroid probe delayed

scientific article published in Nature

Japanese drill ship fails to reach the earthquake-generating zone

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Japan’s Venus orbiter makes comeback

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-12-07

Joint effort nabs next wave of US supercomputers

scientific article published in Nature

Jubilation as NASA orbiter reaches Mars

scientific article published in Nature

Juno becomes first spacecraft to visit Jupiter in 21 years

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-07-05

Jupiter has 10 more moons we didn’t know about — and they’re weird

scientific article published in Nature

Jupiter mission's computer glitch delays data-gathering

scientific article published in Nature

Jupiter's stormy winds churn deep into the planet

scientific article published in October 2017

Jupiter’s secrets revealed by NASA probe

scientific article published in Nature

Kepler spacecraft in emergency mode

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-04-10

LIGO live: Inside the hunt for gravitational waves

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-02-10

Large magma reservoir gets bigger

scientific article published in Nature

Legendary Arecibo telescope will close forever - scientists are reeling

scientific article published on 19 November 2020

Legendary radio telescope hangs in the balance

scientific article published in Nature

Let the river run: Removing two dams from the Elwha is a can't-miss restoration experiment

scientific article published on 29 December 2014

Lift off! Artemis Moon rocket launch kicks off new era of human exploration

scientific article published on 16 November 2022

Long-awaited US report charts course for studies of Earth from space

journal article; published in Nature on 2018-01-05

Lunar rock chemistry supports big-smash theory

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-06-05

Major cloud-seeding test gives mixed results

scientific article published in Nature

Major earthquake hits Nepal

scientific article published in Nature

Mammoth cave yields most recent animals

scientific article published in 2005

Man-made quakes shake the ground less than natural ones

scientific article published in Nature

Mappers rush to pinpoint landslide risk in Nepal

scientific article published in May 2015

Marine ecologists take to the skies to study coral reefs

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

Marine science: Oceanography's billion-dollar baby

scientific article published in September 2013

Market watch

Mars contamination fear could divert Curiosity rover

scientific article published in Nature

Mars methane hunt comes up empty, flummoxing scientists

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Mars mission set for launch.

scientific article

Mars quakes set to reveal tantalizing clues to planet’s early years

scientific article published in Nature

Mars rover finds evidence of ancient habitability

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-03-12

Mars rover under pressure to reach mountain goal ⬇️

scientific article published on March 21, 2013

Mars scientists edge closer to solving methane mystery

scientific article published in Nature

Mars slow to yield its secrets

scientific article published in Nature

Martian moon set to form ring around red planet

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-11-23

Martian mystery cloud defies explanation

scientific article published in Nature

Massive ocean-observing project launches — despite turmoil

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-06-06

Massive star reveals its unstable heart

scientific article published in Nature

Massive tank reveals hurricanes' inner workings

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-05-29

Massive underwater volcano erupts

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-05-01

Meet the weather observers on climate change’s front lines

scientific article published in September 2019

Melting at the microscale: Studying sea ice close-up may improve climate models

scientific article published in 2010

Mercury mission set to end with dramatic crash

scientific article published in Nature

Mercury seen as never before

scientific article published in Nature

Mercury seen as never before (Test)

scientific article published in Nature

Meteorites pummel the Moon far more than expected

scientific article published in Nature

Meteorology: California study targets rivers in the sky.

scientific article published in January 2015

Meteorology: bad weather ahead

scientific article published in Nature

Milky Way’s black hole provides long-sought test of Einstein’s general relativity

scientific article published in Nature

Minnesota bog study turns up the heat on peat

scientific article published in August 2015

Mobile-phone expansion could disrupt key weather satellites

scientific article published in Nature

Mobile-phone expansion could disrupt key weather satellites

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-07-12

Moon and planet names spark battle ⬇️

scientific article published on April 25, 2013

Moon rocks offer new view of lunar dynamo

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-05-06

Moon’s pull can trigger big earthquakes

scientific article published in Nature

Mysteries of Indian monsoon probed in Bay of Bengal

scientific article published in Nature

Mysteries of Sun’s corona on view during upcoming eclipse

journal article; published in Nature on 2017-08-10

Mysterious bright spots on Ceres are probably salt

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-12-09

Mysterious cosmic radio blasts traced to surprising source

scientific article published in Nature

Mysterious interstellar visitor is a comet — not an asteroid

scientific article published in Nature

Mysterious particles spotted in Saturn’s atmosphere

journal article; published in Nature on 2017-10-18

Mysterious ‘alien beacon’ was false alarm

scientific article published in 2021

Mystery dust cloud and aurora spotted on Mars

scientific article published in Nature

Mystery haze appears above Ceres’s bright spots

scientific article published in Nature

Mystery of Ceres' bright spots grows

scientific article published in Nature

NASA Mars mission suffers problem with key instrument

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-12-03

NASA Mars rover to cache first rock samples for delivery to Earth ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 December 2022

NASA cancels March launch to Mars

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-12-22

NASA changes how it divvies up telescope time to reduce gender bias

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

NASA cuts to Europa mission anger planetary scientists

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

NASA funding shuffle alarms planetary scientists

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-12-04

NASA has launched the most ambitious Mars rover ever built: here's what happens next

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT+ claims ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 July 2021

NASA launches next-generation scientific balloon

scientific article published in Nature

NASA mission will 'fist bump' an asteroid to reveal the Solar System's secrets

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

NASA missions bid for extensions.

scientific article

NASA missions struggle to cope with shutdown

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-10-08

NASA narrows its list of planetary targets

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-09-30

NASA picks next New Horizons destination

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-08-28

NASA plans Mars sample-return rover

scientific article published in Nature

NASA reschedules troubled Mars InSight mission to 2018

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-03-09

NASA rethinks approach to Mars exploration

scientific article

NASA retires Kepler spacecraft after planet-hunter runs out of fuel

scientific article published in Nature

NASA reveals major delay for $8-billion Hubble successor

scientific article published in Nature

NASA science chief: ‘I have no worries about the resilience of this country’

scientific article published in Nature

NASA sets sights on asteroid exploration

scientific article published in Nature

NASA sets sights on the Sun ⬇️

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-06-19

NASA spacecraft records epic ‘marsquakes’ as it prepares to die ⬇️

NASA spies Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting Sun-like star

scientific article published on 01 July 2015

NASA test proves pulsars can function as a celestial GPS.

scientific article published in January 2018

NASA to send 3D printer into space

scientific article published in Nature

NASA's Juno spacecraft prepares to probe Jupiter's mysteries

scientific article

NASA's chief scientist on Mars, moons and money

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-12-13

NASA's dark-energy probe faces cost crisis.

scientific article

NASA's deep-space crew capsule faces first big test

scientific article published in Nature

NASA's last-shot plan to revive silent Mars rover

scientific article published in Nature

NASA’s Mars rover makes ‘fantastic’ find in search for past life

scientific article published on 16 September 2022

NASA’s Orion spacecraft prepares for blazing return to Earth ⬇️

scientific article published on 8 December 2022

NASA’s Perseverance rover begins key search for life on Mars

scientific article published on 2 June 2022

NASA’s latest exoplanet hunter spots dozens of potential new worlds

scientific article published in Nature

NASA’s next exoplanet hunter will seek worlds close to home

scientific article published in Nature

NOAA chief ready to tackle climate

scientific article published in March 2009

Native ecosystems blitzed by drought

scientific article published in August 2014

Nature's 10

2017 scholarly article

Nature’s 10: Ten people who mattered in science in 2019

scientific article published in December 2019

Near-Earth asteroid held together by weak force

scientific article published in Nature

New Zealand aims high with National Science Challenges

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-06-28

Newfound meteor showers expand astronomical calendar

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-09-16

Next stop, Uranus? Icy planet tops priority list for next big NASA mission

scientific article published on 19 April 2022

Night-time storm chasers stalk their prey on US Plains

scientific article published in July 2015

Nine researchers sue University of Rochester over sexual-harassment allegations

scientific article published in December 2017

Nitrogen glaciers flow on Pluto

journal article; published in Nature on 2015-07-24

North Korea lets scientists peer inside dangerous volcano

scientific article published in April 2016

Nuclear power: Desperately seeking plutonium

scientific article published in Nature

Nuclear war between two nations could spark global famine

scientific article published on 15 August 2022

Numbers: Sharks use math to hunt their prey: Marine predators cruise the seas using fractal principles

scientific article published in 2010

Obama makes risky bid to increase science spending

journal article; published in Nature on 2016-02-10

Obama plays scientific favourites

journal article; published in Nature on 2013-04-11

Obama requests US science funding

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-05-08

Obama's budget plan defies spending cap

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-03-05

Obama's picks underline climate focus

scientific article published in Nature

Obama's science legacy: a space race stalls

scientific article

Obama’s budget request falls flat

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-03-11

Ocean drilling revolutionized Earth science - now geologists want to plumb new depths

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Ocean observatory project hits rough water

scientific article (publication date: 26 November 2014)

Old Mars rover finds signs of ancient water

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-01-23

Oldest traces of life on Earth may lurk in Canadian rocks

journal article; published in Nature on 2017-09-27

On the hunt for a mystery planet

scientific article published on 01 March 2016

On the record

scientific article published in Nature

Pain of US shutdown lingers

scientific article published in October 2013

Pair of deadly Mexico quakes puzzles scientists

scientific article published in Nature

Particle physics: Higgs on the big screen

journal article; published in Nature on 2014-03-12

People: The Science Life: Exploring Earth's alien spaces

scientific article published in 2013

Physics: Wave of the future

scientific article published in July 2014

Planet hunters plot course for habitable worlds

scientific article published in Nature

Planet hunters seek new ways to detect alien life

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Planetary science: Space-rock alert

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Planetary science: The Pluto siblings

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Plate tectonics found on Europa

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Pluto and Charon come into sharper focus

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Pluto fly-by: a graphical guide to the historic mission

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Pluto mapper predicted dwarf planet's weird geology

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Pluto may have icy cap

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Pluto snow forecast poses atmospheric conundrum

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Pluto snow forecast poses atmospheric conundrum

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Pluto spacecraft temporarily loses contact with Earth

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Pluto's long, strange history — in pictures

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Pluto's vast icy plains and gentle hills emerge in new images

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Pluto, large and in living colour

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Pluto-bound craft hunts for hazardous moons

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Pluto-bound probe faces crisis

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Pluto-bound probe faces its toughest task: finding Pluto

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Pluto’s geology is unlike any other

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Pluto’s moons move in synchrony

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Polar creatures squeaked through last ice age

Polar research: school of rock

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Prehistoric impact idea smacked down ⬇️

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Private research ship makes waves ⬇️

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Prospects for life on Venus fade - but aren't dead yet

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Q marks the spot as ancient sculptures yield their origins

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Q&A: Composer of deep time

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Q&A: Geological historian

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Q&A: Lexi Jamieson Marsh and Ellen Currano: Face to face

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Quake-prone Myanmar leads the way in seismic monitoring

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Quest to drill into Earth’s mantle restarts

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Race to unravel Oklahoma’s artificial quakes

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Rare ozone hole opens over Arctic - and it's big

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Rebooted Kepler spacecraft hauls in the planets

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Record number of asteroids seen whizzing past Earth in 2020

Remnants suggest comet ISON still going

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Renowned Arecibo telescope won’t be rebuilt — and astronomers are heartbroken

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Rescued radar maps reveal Antarctica's past

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Research gets increasingly international

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Researchers frustrated as Biden’s science adviser resigns amid scandal

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Researchers question rescued polar expedition

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Revealed: How a spacecraft will bring Mars rocks to Earth

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Ripple effects of New Zealand earthquake continue to this day

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Rock core from dinosaur-killing impact reveals how enormous craters form

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Rumours swirl about Trump's science adviser pick

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is redrawing the geopolitics of space

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Russia’s war in Ukraine forces Arctic climate projects to pivot

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SOFIA irons out technical kinks

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Saturn spacecraft begins science swan-song

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Science advisers mull priorities

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Science expresses concern over controversial chemistry paper

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Science in limbo as US government shuts down

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Science suffers in rocket explosion

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Scientific advice: Crisis counsellors

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Scientific ballooning takes off.

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Scientists despair as US government shutdown drags on

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Scientists jubilant as Pluto mission phones home — safe

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Scientists protest plan to weaken US gender-discrimination law

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Scientists relieved but wary as US shutdown ends

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Scientists urged to plan for the next US president

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Scientists worldwide join strikes for climate change

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Scientists' sexual-harassment case sparks protests at University of Rochester

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Second-ever interstellar comet contains alien water

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Seismology: The sleeping dragon

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Seven ways the war in Ukraine is changing global science

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Sexual harassment is pervasive in US physics programmes

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Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study

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Shuttle's end spells change at NASA ⬇️

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Slushy start mooted for space rocks

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Snapshot: Carbon stores

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Snow-sensing fleet to unlock water's icy secrets.

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Software error doomed Japanese Hitomi spacecraft

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Solar System’s biggest asteroid is an ancient ocean world

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Space rovers in record race ⬇️

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Space science: Voyager at 40

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Space station dark-matter experiment hits a glitch

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Space-station cameras reveal how thunderstorms trigger gamma-ray bursts

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Space-station science ramps up

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SpaceX launch highlights threat to astronomy from 'megaconstellations'

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SpaceX rocket to space station explodes after launch

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SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce 'megaconstellation' threat to astronomy

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SpaceX to launch astronauts - and a new era of private human spaceflight

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Spacecraft nears dwarf planet Ceres

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Special relativity aces time trial

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Speedier Arctic data as warm winter shrinks sea ice

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Stand back, Aquaman: Harpoon-throwing satellite takes aim at space junk

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Stormy opening to hurricane season

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Story one: Antarctica is for crabs, Caribbean is for shrimp: Big differences seen among deep-sea vent communities

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Story one: Arctic Ocean ice melt smashes previous record: Frozen area falls well below 2007 minimum extent

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Story one: Ocean currents and sulfur haze deliver global warming hiatus: But increasing temperatures remain in long-term forecast

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Story one: Rain tips balance between forest and savanna: Amount of tree cover can shift suddenly and abruptly

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Strange comet behaviour puzzles researchers

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Strike ends at Chilean observatory

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Stunning new Webb images: baby stars, colliding galaxies and hot exoplanets

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Sun-bombing spacecraft uncovers secrets of the solar wind

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Super-fast Antarctic drills ready to hunt for oldest ice.

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Supernova left its mark in ancient bacteria

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Survey probes volcano’s depths

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Suspected first exomoon comes into tantalizing focus

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Swimming dinosaur found in Morocco

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Technology: Joint effort nabs next wave of US supercomputers

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Technology: Selfies in space

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Teething troubles at huge telescope ⬇️

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Tempers flare at hurricane meeting

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That's oil, folks..

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The $2.4-billion plan to steal a rock from Mars

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The $93-billion plan to put astronauts back on the Moon

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The 24/7 search for killer quakes

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The 24/7 search for killer quakes

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The Arctic is burning like never before - and that's bad news for climate change

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The exoplanet files

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The fiery birth of Earth's largest ocean

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The fight to save thousands of lives with sea-floor sensors

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The first Mars rocks to return to Earth could come from this ancient lakebed

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The first footprints on Mars could belong to this geologist

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The invisible extinction

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The many roads to the red planet - a memoir

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The mountain-top battle over the Thirty Meter Telescope

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The quest to conquer Earth’s space junk problem

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The science news events that shaped 2019

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The ultimate experiment: How Trump will handle science

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The wait is over: Trump taps meteorologist as White House science adviser

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The world's biggest volcano is a magnetic mix-up

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There’s water on Mars! Signs of buried lake tantalize scientists

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These scientists are setting a forest on fire - and studying it with drones

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These seven alien worlds could help explain how planets form

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These young scientists will shape the next 50 years of Moon research

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This naval oceanographer couldn’t go to sea but was key to planning wartime landings

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Three 'super-Earth' exoplanets seen orbiting nearby star

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Three extraordinary women run the gauntlet of science - a documentary

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Three sites where NASA might retrieve its first Mars rock

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Titan's giant dunes track ancient climate

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Top US science agency unveils hotly anticipated harassment policy

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Tracking the Trump transition, agency by agency

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Troubled Japanese space agency seeks fresh start

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Trump agenda threatens US legacy of science diplomacy

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Trump budget gives last-minute reprieve to science funding

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Trump budget would slash science programmes across government

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Trump finally nominates new leader for NASA

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Trump nominees talk science: As it happened

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Trump picks computer scientist to lead National Science Foundation

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Trump science budget sows confusion

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Trump seeks big cuts to science funding - again

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Trump tells NASA to return to the Moon

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Trump to suspend new visas for foreign scholars

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Trump's next move? Scientists struggle with foggy future

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Trump's top scientist outlines plan to reduce foreign influence on US research

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Tsunami alerts fall short

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Tsunami watch

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Two of the biggest US earthquake faults might be linked

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US Arctic research ship ready to cast off.

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US Earth scientists plan for uncertain future under Trump

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US astronomers plot wish list for the next decade

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US astronomers rally to end sexual harassment

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US budget cuts hit Earth monitoring ⬇️

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US election: The home stretch

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US ocean sciences told to steer a new course

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US plans for science outreach to Muslim world

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US plans upgrade for ageing Greenland research station

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US science adviser pick rumoured near

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US science agencies face deep cuts in Trump budget

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US science agencies report 'shockingly low' rates of harassment complaints

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US science agency will require universities to report sexual harassment

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US scientists plot return to the Moon's surface

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US seismic array eyes its final frontier.

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US sharpens surveillance of crippling solar storms

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US struggles to offload telescopes

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US to launch its most advanced weather satellite yet

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US ‘export rules’ threaten research

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Ukrainian nuclear historian chronicles six disasters

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Underwater volcano is Earth's biggest

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United States revives space-policy council after 24-year absence

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Universities will never be the same after the coronavirus crisis

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University of Rochester president resigns as sexual-harassment probe ends

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University pays millions to researchers who sued over sexual-harassment allegations

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Vibrant Pluto stuns scientists

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Video: Fresh glimpse at iconic dinosaur footprints

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Volcanic-ash sensor to take flight

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Volcanoes shift before they spew

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Voyager: Outward bound ⬇️

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Water flow tracks earthquake healing

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Water returns to arid Colorado River delta

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Wealthy funder pays reparations for use of HeLa cells

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Webb telescope blasts off successfully — launching a new era in astronomy

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Webb telescope reaches its final destination far from Earth

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Webb telescope wows with first image of an exoplanet ⬇️

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Wet exoplanet has clear skies

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What NASA missions can teach us about teamwork

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What Obama's win means for science

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What Trump’s pick for secretary of state could mean for climate policy

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What a Joe Biden presidency would mean for five key science issues

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What happened at March for Science events around the world

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White House budget to ground SOFIA

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Why NASA’s Artemis Moon launch is delayed — and what’s next

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Why a NASA spacecraft could bounce, crunch or sink on icy Europa

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Why extreme rains are gaining strength as the climate warms

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Why planetary scientists want better fake space dirt

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Why the Tongan eruption will go down in the history of volcanology

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Why three missions are going to Mars in 2020

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Will increasing traffic to the Moon contaminate its precious ice?

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Wind-mapping satellite finally launches after 19 years in the works

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World's deadliest volcanoes identified

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World's largest wind-mapping project spins up in Portugal

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World’s first wind-mapping satellite set to launch

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Young scientists poised to ride the gravitational wave

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‘Bit of panic’: Astronomers forced to rethink early Webb telescope findings

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‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System

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‘Unsustainable’: how satellite swarms pose a rising threat to astronomy

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