Towering egos and careening space junk: why the new era of space exploration is a disaster in the making
Margaret Harris reviews Astrotopia: the Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race by Mary-Jane Rubenstein
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Margaret Harris reviews Astrotopia: the Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race by Mary-Jane Rubenstein
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Simple heterojunction combines many functions in a single component
Independent groups find no evidence for room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductivity in a modified form of lead apatite
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