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Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way’s galactic centre

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers clues about a group of stellar objects that are hard to observe directly

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Andrew Herbert is recreating EDSAC at the National Museum of Computing
Technology

How the EDSAC computer changed science in the 1940s and 50s

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Mating Garter snakes

Life

Sex may have evolved as a way to pool resources during tough times

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Environment

Blackbird deaths point to looming West Nile virus threat in the UK

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Space

The Athena lander reached the moon 鈥� but seems to have fallen over

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Technology

Experts say US flights are safe now but flag warning signs to look for

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Health

The US may start vaccinating chickens and cows against bird flu

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Life

Birds’ nests in Amsterdam are made up of plastic from 30 years ago

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Technology

Lasers can help detect radioactive materials from afar

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Space

Two huge black holes merged into one and went flying across the cosmos

A supermassive black hole that doesn't appear to be where we would expect seems to be travelling at more than a thousand kilometres per second 鈥� the result of a giant cosmic collision

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Mind

Do we all see red as the same colour? We finally have an answer

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Environment

Global sea ice levels just hit a new record low

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Health

Men taking antibiotics could cut rates of bacterial vaginosis in women

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Physics

Quantum disorder is dependent on who is looking for it

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