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European Space Agency scientists say they’re still trying to locate the Philae lander but it is “stable” and sending data
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Scientists receive picture of bumpy surface where Philae touched down after anxious overnight wait following gaps in radio link with Rosetta mother ship
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After the lander’s dramatic landing on Wednesday, the European Space Agency has released pictures of where it first touched down before bouncing, and of its descent
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Safe landing gives scientists their first chance to ride a comet and study close up what happens as it gets closer to the sun
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Editorial: This great exploration has demanded unswerving tenacity, as well as Europe-wide cooperation
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The European Space Agency has released the first image from the Philae lander moments before it touched down on a comet
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Rosetta mission controllers must decide whether to risk making lander hop from spot near cliff face blocking sunlight to its solar panels
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Probe landing attracts allegations that 67P is not a comet but alien object kept secret by Nasa and European Space Agency
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The European Space Agency celebrated landing its Philae probe on comet 67P but not everything went to plan, leaving scientists with problems to solve
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The view is somewhat restricted, but the first ever picture from the surface of a comet reveals a lot about the Philae lander’s predicament
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Guardian head of photography says pictures from Rosetta space probe lack beauty of earlier pioneering space images
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GrrlScientist: Our teen-aged hero, Itch, is back. This, the third book in a mystery-thriller trilogy, follows Itch’s continuing adventures as he and his friends try to outwit criminal masterminds who are desperately seeking radioactive chemical element 126 -- an element that still lurks out there. Somewhere.
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Plate techtonics, general relativity, alien abductions, evolution, magic water, climate change, quantum mechanics... all just theories. But not in the same way. A lovely short film explains why
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Alice Bell: ESA can land their robot on a comet. But they still can’t see misogyny under their noses.
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James Wilsdon: While Europe’s scientists were watching Rosetta, President Juncker quietly scrapped the role of his top scientific adviser. What does this mean for the future of evidence-based policy in Europe?
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The European Space Agency’s Philae probe has just become the first robotic spacecraft to live tweet its own comet landing
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Peter Siebold was unaware that system controlling descent had been unlocked early by co-pilot Michael Alsbury, who died in crash
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GrrlScientist: Our teen-aged hero, Itch, is back. This, the third book in a mystery-thriller trilogy, follows Itch’s continuing adventures as he and his friends try to outwit criminal masterminds who are desperately seeking radioactive chemical element 126 -- an element that still lurks out there. Somewhere.
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Plate techtonics, general relativity, alien abductions, evolution, magic water, climate change, quantum mechanics... all just theories. But not in the same way. A lovely short film explains why
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Alice Bell: ESA can land their robot on a comet. But they still can’t see misogyny under their noses.
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GrrlScientist: Advice to scientists on how to game the Altmetrics score system.
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GrrlScientist: Mark Miodownik’s Stuff Matters has won the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. Stuff Matters, published by Viking, takes the reader on a lively and engaging exploration of some of the myriad materials that shape the modern world.
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New research challenges an age-old assumption about the basic structure and function of the neuron.
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Polar bears and other animals that have made themselves known this week
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Mathematics Simon Beck's astonishing landscape and snow art illustrates the cold beauty of mathematics – in pictures
Alex Bellos samples Simon Beck’s stunning mathematical drawings, created by running in snowshoes across freshly laid snow in the Alps -
Jon Butterworth: At its 173rd closed session, Cern council selects the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the organisation’s next director general
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Athene Donald: A recent study claims that low numbers of women in senior academic science are due to choices made in childhood by girls, not anything to do with the environment at work. Can this be true?
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Alex Bellos: Postage goes meta as new Chinese stamps celebrate an ancient number pattern by themselves appearing in a pattern
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Jon Butterworth: How the physics of the industrial revolution now connects cosmology and particle physics
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GrrlScientist: This interesting video shares some of the calls made by a few owl species, including the calls made by one of the world’s most widespread bird species, the barn owl.
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Posts on our network this week included the science of cashing in on halloween, the discovery of a new frog species in New York, and why we need to banish the idea of the scientist as a crazy genius
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The European Space Agency celebrated landing its Philae probe on comet 67P but not everything went to plan, leaving scientists with problems to solve
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Guardian head of photography says pictures from Rosetta space probe lack beauty of earlier pioneering space images
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Microbiologist whose research contributed to the production of vital chemicals for use in industry and agriculture
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Alan Pickup on our largest neighbour, now moving into a good position for observation, and on the annual Leonids meteor shower
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Steven Pinker, the linguist and author on social media, publishing his genome and sex with a robot
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From explaining why you can see through a pane of glass but not a sheet of paper to the mystery of invisible ink
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As baby boomers move towards outnumbering children under five, a social crisis is looming which will affect every generation
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As another winter sports season begins, Charlie English looks at the effects of climate change on a $70bn global industry
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Intervening in climate change currently raises more questions than answers when it comes to manipulating the atmosphere, writes Nicola Davis
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Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker explores the hidden numbers and patterns that keep our data safe and make our gadgets work
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Ryan Harris had been searching for the wreck of the lost ship of John Franklin for six years. Now, having finally located it, he tells Robin McKie what the find may reveal about the doomed expedition to discover the North West Passage
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The £1bn European spacecraft will seek answers to questions such as the origins of life on Earth. But anxious scientists know the mission faces perils in its final manoeuvres
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Our monthly roundup of best space-related imagery in the known universe includes the second largest spiral galaxy found by Hubble Space Telescope, the North America Nebula and a snap of the cosmos filled with millions of galaxies
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Children at schools in Texas, New Jersey and Michigan had worked for a year to develop projects for the International Space Station
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Former Nasa engineer and analysts question theories of old Soviet engine in Antares explosion, noting such missions are inherently risky
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Alan Pickup on the stars, planets and meteors to look out for during the coming month
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Other lives: Psychiatrist, lay Roman Catholic theologian and author of several books on love, sex and relationships
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Biologists have long been wary of applying quantum theory to their own field. But, as Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden reveal, it might explain much natural phenomena
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Usama Hasan: The comet 67P is a relic from the solar system’s birth: studying it will offer insight into Earth’s beginnings – and could avert future collisions
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George Monbiot: Movies about abandoning Earth reflect the political defeatism of our age: that adapting to climate breakdown is preferable to stopping it
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Pete Cashmore: Listening to a brilliant rhymer vent negative feelings you may recognise in yourself is far from depressing
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Aarathi Prasad: Until our testosterone-fuelled social structures are addressed, the technology that offers us respite from the biological clock is wasted
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Andrew Brown: A study of 550 societies suggests that belief in a personified deity that watches over believers may confer evolutionary advantages
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David Marsh: Word meanings can sometimes seem counterintuitive, but the government’s latest assault on language should be resisted – not sanctioned
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Fern Riddell: The idea that orgasms were administered to women by doctors is pure fantasy
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Steve Backshall: Unless every single badger is killed, the survivors move around, resulting in an increase in bovine TB. But will politicians listen?
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Juliette Jowit: The physical basis of mental illness is clear. ‘Parity of esteem’ in health services is a necessity, not a luxury
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Benjamin Black: Health workers who have gone to west Africa to tackle Ebola are increasingly being stigmatised at home by people terrified they will bring the virus back with them. So here are the facts
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David Shariatmadari: Buzzwords: 'Earth-shatteringly good' pizzas may not live up to their billing, but, linguistically, we'll never escape the cycle of exaggeration
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Wilson da Silva: I’m devastated for the pilots and the families of those involved in the Mojave tragedy. But I will still take my place as one of the first 100 to fly with Virgin Galactic
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Emma Brockes: Maybe the sheer banality of the web could induce the kind of fugue state that allows ideas to flourish
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Bill McKibben: UN body’s warning on carbon emissions is hard to ignore, but breaking the power of the fossil fuel industry won’t be easy
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Rebecca Bell: We’ve got an awful lot of nuclear waste to safely dispose of and it’s going nowhere without our help
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Nick Cohen: Nay-sayers are all too quick to decry scientific findings if they don’t agree with their own cracked views
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Oliver Burkeman: Neither language nor the basic arrangement of our bodies determines how we put time in space. So what does?
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Emma Brockes: Notebook: YYou’re unlikely to catch Ebola from lift buttons, but that hasn’t stopped New Yorkers treating a nurse and doctor like reincarnations of Mary Mallon
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The European Space Agency Mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, celebrates as the Philae lander, dispatched from its mothership Rosetta, touches down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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The European Space Agency (ESA) explains the process of landing the Philae lander on the surface of comet 67P
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On Wednesday, Rosetta will attempt to drop a lander called Philae onto the surface of a comet. This is the story of the European Space Agency’s extraordinary decade-long mission in images
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The chemicals that give your food flavour and colour
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The European Space Agency releases an animation illustrating next week's planned landing on a comet of a robotic probe
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Polar bears and other animals that have made themselves known this week
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During Expedition 40, Nasa astronauts Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman – along with European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst – explored water surface tension in microgravity on the international space station. The crew 'submerged' a sealed GoPro camera into a floating ball of water the size of a softball and recorded the activity with a 3D camera
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Alex Bellos samples Simon Beck’s stunning mathematical drawings, created by running in snowshoes across freshly laid snow in the Alps
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Sir Richard Branson hits out at 'self-proclaimed' experts who asserted that an explosion brought down the Virgin Galactic space-plane last week
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US investigators say that a function designed to help Virgin Galactic's crashed space plane descend was deployed early during the accident
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US transport officials say report of what caused SpaceShipTwo crash in California desert may not be published for up to a year
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One of two pilots on board the experimental Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo craft was killed when it crashed during a test flight in the Mojave Desert of California
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A private unmanned craft carrying supplies for the International Space Station explodes on launch after a ‘catastrophic’ equipment failure
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A rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station has gone down in a spectacular explosion in the US state of Virginia
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The commercial cargo ship, SpaceX Dragon, concludes its fifth mission to the International Space Station and is headed back to Earth
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Google's vice president Alan Eustace sky dives from the edge of space, breaking the world altitude record previously set by Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner
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Rose Young tells Guardian science editor Ian Sample about her work as a telephone exchange operator during the 1950s
Caution should be the watchword for scientists trying to predict the future