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Nasa can’t open its asteroid capsule
The team behind Nasa’s Osiris-REx mission is struggling to open fully the container holding the bulk of the sample from asteroid Bennu. Since the 4.5 billion year-old sample landed in the Utah desert…
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Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez
Podcast Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez I’ve spent years investigating the gender data gap, and how women are simply forgotten in a world designed for men. In this new 12-part podcast series…
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