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Plans for first US lunar landing since Apollo revealed
The Pittsburgh-based robotics company was selected by Nasa’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) programme – where nine companies developed small…
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The whole story of exploration: part one, brave new world
Although humankind’s migration out of the African continent started some two million years ago, this gradual spread through tribal relocation…
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The whole story of exploration: part two, age of instruments
The ability to know the time in two places at once had a massive effect on exploration, especially at sea,…
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The whole story of exploration: part three, digital earth and beyond
Ernest Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition (1907-09), otherwise known as ‘Nimrod’, after the ship that took his men south, was one…
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Amazon strike, incognito with juggalo, HS2 costs and more: Best of the week’s news
Tim Fryer, technology editor Amazon workers in US to strike during Prime Day over job conditions Have the big tech…
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‘Top Secret: From ciphers to cyber security’ at the Science Museum
The ‘Top Secret’ exhibition explores a century’s worth of communications intelligence through hand-written documents, declassified files and previously unseen artefacts…
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Book review: ‘The Women of the Moon’
The Moon many not have any seas, but it has an estimated 300,000 craters. Of these, 1,586 have been named…
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