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Government investment into research and development has helped the UK become a leader in life sciences, engineering biology, and artificial intelligence.

Check out stunning photos from the $2 billion space telescope that captures the invisible universe — and that NASA plans to defund

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Messier 74, nicknamed "the Phantom Galaxy" for its dimness, comes to life when Chandra revealed its X-ray activity (purple) alongside observations from Hubble and Webb.

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; IR NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team; Image Processing: N. Wolk and K. Arcand

US-Russia collaboration has long endured in space. The Ukraine war could ruin it.

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NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, members of the International Space Station Expedition 70-71 main crew, on September 15, 2023.

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NASA is asking for help to retrieve Mars samples that could be the first evidence of alien life

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A rock core is visible inside the Perseverance rover's sample tube.

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Scientists went on a hunt for the elusive colossal squid — and brought cruise ship tourists with them

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In 2014, a fishing vessel caught a colossal squid, which New Zealand researchers dissected.

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Scientists solved the 70-year-old mystery of an insect's invisibility coat that can manipulate light

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Leafhoppers (left) are a common backyard insect that secrete amazingly complex nanoparticles called brochosomes (right).

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A 13-year-old girl helped unearth an ancient Roman town. She's finally getting credit for it over 90 years later.

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At 13, Helen Carlton-Smith took part in excavating Verulamium and kept a diary of the dig.

Photographs from the Verulamium Excavations of the 1930s ©St Albans Museums

Researchers used the world's most powerful MRI to get brain scans that are 10 times as detailed as a hospital MRI — take a look

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The 11.7 Tesla Iseult is currently the most powerful MRI machine in the world.

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Hazardous 'forever chemicals' in water, food, and air won't disappear with new EPA rules. But 6 simple tactics can reduce your exposure at home.

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A child drinks bottled water in Reynosa, Mexico.

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Hazardous 'forever chemicals' stay in your blood for years, longer than lead or arsenic. It still helps to cut them out.

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