Building blocks of life identified in sample collected from asteroid Bennu
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
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A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin
The idea that the pre-Columbian Amazon was pristine has taken a nose-dive in recent years. Scientists have found several ...
25 years on: The best and worst of Britain’s Millennium architecture
We celebrate and bemoan the building projects of the Millennium. Which were the joys, and which were the duds?