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Amazon has launched a device in the UK that allows customers to order food shopping from their kitchen by calling out ingredients or scanning a bar code. The Amazon Dash is a small handheld stick that is designed to make…

Lobsters are a positively delicious seafood, but they’re not exactly the easiest food to eat. Especially if you don’t have it very often. If you’ve never had it, or just need a refresher, this graphic walks you through eating a…

Andrés Nieto Porras/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) The Perseids, one of the most popular meteor showers of the year, is coming up in just under a month. But you don’t have to wait until August to see shooting stars light up…

Artist’s impression of the exotic binary system AR Scorpii, with a compact white dwarf star (right) flogging its red dwarf companion with high energy electrons every two minutes. Image: M. Garlick/University of Warwick/ESO Some 380 light years away in the…

NASA began preparing for Orion’s 2018 maiden flight atop the Space Launch System quite some time ago. Since both Orion and SLS are new technologies, the space agency has been subjecting both to a series of rigorous tests, which it…

The Royal Observatory in Greenwich has announced its shortlist for the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. From nebulas and auroras through to starbursts and solar eclipses, these photographs will rekindle your sense of wonder. This year’s competition was…