Human settlement of Mars isn’t as far off as you might think

Frame Stock Footage / Shutterstock Could humans expand out beyond their homeworld and establish settlements on the planet Mars? The idea of settling the red planet has been around for decades. However, it has been seen by sceptics as a delusion at best and mere bluster at worst. Mars might seem superficially similar to Earth […]

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Baleen whales are among the biggest creatures on Earth – science is revealing new secrets about their size

People often think of all whales as giants of the sea when in fact they vary in size dramatically, from the 30-metre blue whale to the two-metre dwarf sperm whale. However, almost all of the largest family by size, the baleen whales, are massive – and scientists have only recently understood how they grew so […]

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