Fire missiles at Mars to find deeply buried life
The Exolance project would scatter bunker-busters across the planet to hunt for signs of life in subsurface ice – if they can hitch a ride
Flying 3D printer could seal off nuclear waste
An autonomous mini-helicopter can smother a container with foam before a second lifts it out of hard-to-reach spots
New tyrannosaur was the Dobermann of the dinosaur era
A freshly discovered long-lost cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex has been nicknamed "Pinocchio rex" because of its long snout
Coral Sea paradise is world's largest protected area
If undisturbed natural beauty is your bag, then the Pacific islands of New Caledonia are the place to be, with 1.3 million square kilometres now protected
Climate change already impacting the US, report warns
Authored by hundreds of scientists, the National Climate Assessment has found that human-induced climate change is taking a toll on the entire country
Forget dark matter – embrace my MOND theory instead
Experiments keep failing to find direct evidence for the dark stuff. Physicist Mordehai Milgrom says it's time to accept modified Newtonian dynamics instead
Tiny dark matter 'bullet' may be one among hundreds
The galactic smash-up hints that many more similar objects are waiting to be found, which may help us tease out details of dark matter interactions
No man's lands: A cabinet of geographical curiosities
From lost cities to islands that don't exist, geographical oddities reveal what makes a sense of place, says social geographer Alastair Bonnett in Off the Map
US Supreme Court air pollution ruling will save lives
The Environmental Protection Agency can now regulate air pollution that drifts across state lines – the new rules should pay for themselves in lives saved
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