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I’ve always appreciated how lucky I am to be alive during this period of history, given the huge technological advances that have occurred during my short time on this planet, but in recent years these feelings of gratitude and awe have increasingly been accompanied by a nagging sense of eco-guilt. Like many people, my love …

By David MolloyTechnology reporter Related Topics Climate change image copyrightGetty Images Are you the type of person who always says thank you? Well, if it’s by email, you should stop, according to UK officials looking at ways to save the environment. The Financial Times reports that we may all soon be encouraged to send one …

“Eat your spinach,” is a common refrain from many people’s childhoods. Spinach, the hearty, green vegetable chock full of nutrients, doesn’t just provide energy in humans. It also has potential to help power fuel cells, according to a new paper by researchers in AU’s Department of Chemistry. Spinach, when converted from its leafy, edible …

A tiny white dwarf, WD 1856, is orbited closely by a huge planet.  NASA Goddard Around 80 light-years from Earth lies the white dwarf WD 1856, a dead star that entered the final stages of its life around 6 billion years ago. This slow death is typically quite lonely. In the process of dying, some …

Image copyright Rocket Lab Image caption A picture of Earth taken from a Rocket Lab Photon. The craft will go to Venus in 2023 With astronomers detecting a potential signature of life in the clouds of Venus, there’s obviously going to be a big push to get some new space missions to the planet. We …

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionNasa’s Perseverance rover launches successfully from Cape Canaveral The US space agency’s Perseverance robot has left Earth on a mission to try to detect life on Mars. The one-tonne, six-wheeled rover was launched out of Florida by an Atlas rocket on a path to intercept the Red …

Image copyright NASA/JPL Image caption A section of the Sayh al Uhaymir 008 meteorite which was found in Oman in 1999 A small chunk of Mars will be heading home when the US space agency launches its latest rover mission on Thursday. Nasa’s Perseverance robot will carry with it a meteorite that originated on the …

Image copyright Uni Warwick / Mark Garlick Image caption Artwork: The planetary core orbits very close to its parent star Astronomers have found a previously unseen type of object circling a distant star. It could be the core of a gas world like Jupiter, offering an unprecedented glimpse inside one of these giant planets. Giant …

The South Pole has warmed three times faster than the rest of the planet in the last 30 years due to warmer tropical ocean temperatures, new research showed Monday. Antarctica’s temperature varies widely according to season and region, and for years it had been thought that the South Pole had stayed cool even as the …

Image copyright NASA Image caption At Earth, astronauts see a green glow as they look edge-on into our atmosphere Scientists have identified a green light in the atmosphere of Mars. A similar glow is sometimes seen by astronauts on the space station when they look to the Earth’s limb. The glow comes from oxygen atoms …