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Egyptians viewed oral sex as holy

Artifacts from ancient Egyptian culture reveal a culture that was far less puritanical about oral sex than we are

Salon

Good habits result in graceful ageing

Following the bunnies of wood, fire, earth and metal, the water rabbit made a comeback last Sunday with the beginning of the Lunar New Year.

Bangkok Post

The 'green comet' passes closest to Earth this week. Here's the best time to see it in Australia

Depending on where you are in the country, and if you have the right kit, there's a possibility you'll be able to catch a glimpse of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF).

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NASA-funded study to research if bacteria could help form building materials on Mars

Since the 1990s, several architectures have been drafted for crewed missions to Mars, all of which have emphasized the need for keeping launch mass low.

Inverse

Human space junk will stop us from finding aliens, experts warn

Some 400,000 satellites have been approved globally for low Earth orbit

The Independent UK

The Earth's Corr: We need to send our transport dinosaurs on a trip to Copenhagen

Change is possible - we just need the policies to back it up

Belfast Live

'My partner got up off the sofa and went for a walk. He hasn't come home'

"It's like every day you are living a nightmare. Like you're here, but you're not"

Manchester Evening News

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Green comet last seen 50,000 years ago will make closest pass by Earth

The spectacular celestial object - which is comprised mostly of ice, gas, and carbon - hasn't passed the Sun since the stone age

Wales Online

Rare green comet last seen 50,000 years ago due to make closest pass by Earth

Astronomer Dr Greg Brown explains how to view this once-in-a-lifetime celestial object.

The Independent UK

Physicists demo a sci-fi-inspired laser that mimics a classic UFO trick

A tractor beam is a device that can move an object from a distance and a classic trope of UFO conspiracies and science-fiction. Now, physicists have demoed one at work in the lab.

Inverse

Otherlands author Thomas Halliday: ‘Some people have insisted on reading the book backwards’

The paleobiologist and author of Foyles’ nonfiction book of 2022 on Earth’s deep past, the joys of the British Library, and how early four-limbed vertebrates helped him find his feet

The Guardian - UK

Huge 'Swiss cheese' bubble surrounds Earth in new images released by scientists

Incredible images have been released of an enormous 1,000-light-year-wide "superbubble" which surrounds planet Earth and was created by multiple supernova explosions

Daily Mirror

More than bread and butter

With the best butter, everything is good or so the plates tell me at Bijoux de Beurre Échiré. Located in the newly-opened Earth Dining complex on Sukhumvit 63, the patisserie, viennoiserie and boulangerie is in "the business of selling butter, in all forms" as head pastry chef Champ Phanichkul tells…

Bangkok Post

Could we feed a city on Mars?

The technologies unlocked by Mars could place us on a much more sustainable trajectory on Earth

Salon

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The Independent UK

Study: Enough rare earth minerals to fuel green energy shift

The world is trying to switch from electricity produced by burning fossil fuels to cleaner wind and solar power, but some people have worried that there aren't enough rare earth minerals to make the green electricity switch

The Independent UK

Green comet zooming our way, last visited 50,000 years ago

A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years

The Independent UK

Colombia's Arhuacos strive for harmony with Mother Nature

The Arhuaco people in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta have fended off incursions by Capuchin missionaries and by the illegal armed groups of Colombia's long civil conflict. They would prefer to focus on avoiding and repairing damage to Mother Earth.

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‘That Was Close’: A Delivery Truck-Sized Asteroid Passed Earth By About An Ant’s Nutsack

An asteroid called 2023 BU just passed Earth this morning and it was one of closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded.

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Daily Mirror

'Time traveller from 2858' claims human bones will be found on Mars THIS YEAR

A self-professed time traveler 'from 2858' has left TikTok users divided after sharing bizarre claims that human bones will be found on Mars and aliens will take over the world this year

Reuters

Norway finds 'substantial' mineral resources on its seabed

A Norwegian study has found a "substantial" amount metals and minerals ranging from copper to rare earth metals on the seabed of its extended continental shelf, authorities said on Friday in their first official estimates.

Daily Mirror

NASA astronaut explains what it's like in space from using the loo to getting 'moon face'

Former helicopter pilot Bruce Melnick has twice visited space on NASA shuttles and now works as an ambassador for the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex in his native Florida

Los Angeles Times

How a new Tucson memorial found a way to mourn mass-shooting victims

TUCSON, Ariz. — If you were to hover over El Presidio Plaza in downtown Tucson, you might catch sight of an earthen form resembling a point of impact, as if some object from the heavens came careening to earth and displaced several tons of vegetation and rock. Within this crater…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Phew! Truck-sized Asteroid Misses Earth

A truck-sized asteroid that suddenly loomed out of the darkness a few days ago -- with the Earth in its sights -- sailed harmlessly past us on Thursday, space scientists said. Despite what we've seen in movies like "Armageddon," no global mission to blow it up or knock it off…

The Conversation

Asteroid 2023 BU just passed a few thousand kilometres from Earth. Here's why that's exciting

There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our Solar System, which means new asteroids are discovered quite frequently. It also means close encounters between asteroids and Earth are fairly common.

Daily Mirror

Asteroid 2023 BU scrapes past the Earth in one of the closest approaches ever

A huge asteroid has narrowly passed the Earth tonight, flying past the tip of South America in one of the closest approaches of known near-Earth object on record

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