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The depths of space from the driest place on Earth

Reporting from a high altitude observatory in Chile

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Nature's counter-measures

Wild species such as European birds can teach us a lesson that we can apply to food production and medicine. One of them is that any human practice can lead to a biological counter response. Our latest Lab & Library feature is from biologist Peter Søgaard Jørgensen

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In the future, will robots fight wars?

By getting robots to dream, they can become even better soccer players than humans. Or sci-fi killer machines

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Niels Bohr's atom model turns 100

In his model, electrons orbitted the nucleus like planets around the sun. This year is the centennial of Niels Bohr’s paper

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Laundry cleaners from the Arctic

In the second installment of our science feature, Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann writes in to tell us how frozen greenlandic bacteria can spell our doom, or clean our laundry

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Insects: The food of the future

Bugs reduce pollution, increase nutrition, and should seriously be considered as a food source: This is according to a UN report with University of Copenhagen contribitions

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Media reports: Case against Penkowa dropped

Police drop charges against brain scientist Milena Penkowa, report media

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Could you simply not eat for a day?

In this first installment of our new science & research feature, Martin Borch Jensen writes in to tell us about how eating every second day could extend his life

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Festival: Scientific feast for the mind

Build your own solar cells, woosh around in an electric car or enter a mobile planetarium to see stars in broad daylight. Things you can do at this year's Festival of Research (Forskningens Døgn)

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Photo story: Antarctica meteorite hunt

Geologists hunt for space rocks on the ice of Antarctica. See the photo series

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