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By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website image copyrightNASA / JPL-Caltech On Thursday, Nasa’s Perseverance rover will land on Mars after a journey from Earth of almost seven months. Here, we answer some common questions [...]

image copyrightSue Floodimage captionOn Thin Ice by Sue Flood The Royal Photographic Society has revealed the winners of its Science Photographer of the Year competition, which celebrates the stories behind scientific exploration and [...]

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Golf on the moon: Apollo 14 50th anniversary images find Alan Shepard’s ball and show how far he hit it – BBC Sport “+t+””+”script>”},d=function()tryn=document.domain&&new ActiveXObject(“htmlfile”)catch(t)var [...]

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HS2: Could the pandemic kill off the rail project? – BBC News u003cscript type=”text/javascript”>n IDT.init(“graphicUUID”:”c9cee78e-889a-4363-a8e0-05b5cd493981″);n u003c/script>”,”type”:”idt2″,”idt2Image”:”alt”:””We [...]

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Past Covid-19 infection may provide ‘months of immunity’ – BBC News n (function() n var params = [‘pa=f’];n var allowedCookiesPreferences = [‘110’, ‘111’];nn function [...]