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Was it a chance encounter when you met that special someone or was there some deeper reason for it? What about that strange dream…

Some dark, clear nights, when the blazing stars cast shadows down on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the astronomer Olivier Guyon steps away from…

“How many kingdoms know us not!”—Blaise Pascal, Thoughts (1670) One summer’s day in 1950, the great Italian-American physicist…

Learn about the ways climate change is deeply altering how we live, where we live and the foods we eat -- ultimately threatening some of our most basic human rights.

A new study argues that the explosion that Johannes Kepler observed in 1604 was caused by a merger of two stellar residues.

The German Space Agency (DLR) has opened a new simulation facility at its Planetary Spectroscopy Laboratory (PSL) in Berlin. The facility could help researchers better understand the surface of Venus hidden behind the planet's dense atmosphere.

Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist.

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator at the European particle physics lab CERN, produce about a million gigabytes of data every second. Even after reduction and compression, the data amassed in just one hour is similar to the data volume Facebook collects in an entire year – too much to store and analyze.

Life could have evolved on exoplanets Kepler-452b and Kepler-62e, according to a new study.

Elon Musk may be disappointed by recent studies threatening his plans to go to Mars, but planetary scientists are breathing a sigh of relief.

Photo via Wikimedia Commons The history of science, like most every history we learn, comes to us as a procession of great, almost exclusively white, men, unbroken but for the occasional token woman—well-deserving of her honors but seemingly anomalous nonetheless. “If you believe the history books,” notes the Timeline series The Matilda Effect, “science is a guy thing.

As humans travel farther from Earth for longer missions, the systems that keep them alive must be highly reliable while taking up minimal mass and volume.

Dubbed Rio 2.0, the scale seeks to measure how important any potential signal from aliens might be

‘The younger generation will be the hardest hit if we leave with a bad deal or with no deal’

National Union of Students backs The Independent's campaign for referendum on any #Brexit deal ‘The younger generation will be the hardest hit if we leave with a bad deal or with no deal’ Please Sign and Share #FinalSay #PeoplesVote

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Odds on a second national referendum on Brexit has halved since the beginning of the year and The Independent's campaign has seen wide support from the public

Half-a-million people have signed The Independent’s petition calling for referendum on any Brexit deal Jointhem. Please sign and share. #NobodyVotedForThis #BrexitShambles #PeoplesVote #FinalSay

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Settle in, it's a long way from home.

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Richard Feynman wrote a lot of things. Here, you can read his most touching letter.

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