Some scientific discoveries come about after painstaking, goal-oriented lab work finally yields the result that a researcher is trying to find. But frequently, some lucky accident leads to a ...
BBC News looks back on eight of the biggest science and environment stories of 2017. Artist's impression of two neutron stars colliding In 2017, scientists detected Einstein's gravitational waves ...
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