Unique, but not exceptional
A book that characterizes life on Earth as "special but not significant" gets Tamara Davis thinking about the interconnectedness of the cosmos
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Web life: EGU Network blogs
A collection of geology, geophysics and earth science blogs written by (mostly) European geoscientists
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Physicists isolate neutrinos from Earth’s mantle for first time
Italy's Borexino detector provides further insights into radioactive heating of the Earth
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Tiny particles dance around each other in near-zero gravity
$20,000 camera is dropped 3 m to understand how planets are formed
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Brown dwarf’s powerful auroras shine bright
Radio and optical emissions suggest that the sub-stellar objects behave more like planets than stars
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Searching for life on other planets
Sara Seager is keen to use the next generation of telescopes to look for evidence of extraterrestrial life
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Pluto comes into focus as New Horizons nears the dwarf planet
Spacecraft will soon be just 12,500 km from Pluto
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Philae comet lander wakes up from hibernation mode
Probe could restart science operations soon
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Nascent ‘Kuiper belt’ seen encircling nearby star
Discovery could help us understand how the early solar system evolved
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An interstellar culture clash
Jennifer Ouellette ponders the scientific and political messages of Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem
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