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Fully deployed Webb telescope. Artist concept. The James Webb Space Telescope.

Space

The extraordinary JWST is named for James Webb, whose legacy I deplore

James Webb's legacy was to stand for a status quo where queer Black people like me could never have a home in the NASA community. Naming the incredible new telescope after him has come to represent the contradictions of my job, says Chanda Prescod-Weinsten

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The giant El Gordo galaxy cluster

Space

JWST spots smallest galaxy outside our local universe

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Electron microscope image of the new aluminium alloy

Chemistry

Aluminium alloy could boost spacecraft radiation shielding 100-fold

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Lake Powell

Environment

Shocking images show scale of megadrought devastation in North America

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The Pillars of Creation as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope

Space

JWST has taken a star-studded new image of the Pillars of Creation

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Humans

Why I am keen to get my hands on genetically modified purple tomatoes

Regulars

JWST has spotted bizarre rings of dust around a dying star

Space

JWST has spotted bizarre rings of dust around a dying star

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Human hibernation is a real possibility - this is how it might work

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Human hibernation is a real possibility - this is how it might work

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Bamboo forest

Environment

11th-century polymath was the first to recognise past climate change

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Cows on a green globe

How spherical-cow philosophy makes hard physics problems easy

There's an old physics joke involving a spherical cow. Though it isn't side-splittingly funny, it does explain why physics works so well, writes Sean Carroll

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Technology

Metal-enriched silkworm silk is one of the strongest materials ever

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Technology

Nutrient-measuring device could make microwaves that count calories

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Space

Watch out for three meteor showers set to occur in October

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Space

JWST and Hubble teamed up to take a stunning image of two galaxies

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