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Borman’s professionalism helped the risky Apollo 8 mission become a success.
In The Manic, Benjamin Labatut tells the story of the ‘smartest man of the 20th century’.
Despite the distances involved, people as far apart as the UK and Australia can see the Moon at the same time.
Why the speed of fast bowling in cricket seems to have stalled.
Only after a species is identified and listed by taxonomists can it be protected. Yet we still don’t have one globally agreed-upon list of every species. A new 74-nation survey points to the solution.
246 scientists looked at the same data sets and drew very different conclusions.
The decline of seaweed as part of the staple diet in Europe remains a mystery.
Louis Brus, one of the newest Nobel laureates in chemistry, speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Conversations about scientific research and technological innovations allow the public to build trust with experts, and understand the impacts on everyday lives.
New research looks at how different species have managed to cross geographic barriers throughout history and whether their individual traits played a crucial role in these journeys.
Studying the sample could help answer how water arrived on Earth and how life started.
The discovery provides a way to study the birth of an entirely new planet in real time.
L'Huillier was busy teaching when she her Nobel prize was awarded.
The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.
The winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine made a discovery that helped create the COVID-19 vaccines. They couldn’t have anticipated the tremendous impact of their findings.
Artistic representations of scientific imaging can help illuminate complex ideas and help bring this knowledge to a wider audience.
Big names in consciousness research have signed an open letter attacking ‘integrated information theory’ as pseudoscience, sparking uproar.
Science works better when barriers to collaboration are removed, say experts.
Art and science may seem like opposites, but throughout history the disciplines have fed off each other − and still do today.
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