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Astronaut wee could show us how the plumes on Enceladus work

The way spaceships vent urine and water may be a good stand-in for studying how jets of vapour escape the hidden ocean on one of Saturn’s icy moons

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A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn’s rings from breaking apart

Space

A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn’s rings from breaking apart

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Distant dwarf planet near Pluto has a ring that no one expected

Space

Distant dwarf planet near Pluto has a ring that no one expected

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A moon base

Space

It was always crazy to shoot for Mars before colonising the moon

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Girls with binary code

Technology

The dearth of women in tech is nothing to do with testosterone

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Atomic clock

Physics

The most precise atomic clock ever made is a cube of quantum gas

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Elon Musk’s new plans for a moon base and a Mars mission by 2022

Space

Elon Musk’s new plans for a moon base and a Mars mission by 2022

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Ley

Space

Rocket man: Willy Ley's fervour helped put men on the moon

Culture

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid

Space

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid

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Cardano

Physics

The Renaissance gambler who invented probability to win at cards

Jerome Cardano's gambling obsession spurred him to invent two of the most important theories in maths, laying the foundations of quantum physics

Features

Space

Infamous three-body problem has over a thousand new solutions

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Space

Brown dwarfs have strong magnetic fields just like real stars

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Space

Cassini takes last look at the ring patterns made by mini moons

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Space

Tears for Cassini: why it's OK to well up over a lump of metal

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