BBC Knowledge June 2017

TRAPPIST-1, an ultracool dwarf star located just 40 light-years from Earth in the Aquarius constellation, was first detected by ...

The star is relatively small, just 8 per cent the mass of the Sun, and would appear to glow salmon pink when observed from the s ...

STAR Mercury Mars 4 2 1 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 1g Venus Earth 1h HOT AND COLD Orbital period Days Distance to starAstronomical units (AU ...

When astronauts head to the International Space Station in Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule next year, it looks like they will ...

What did they do? A team from Tokyo University got male silk moths to drive robotic cars towards the source of sex pheromones pr ...

PHOTO: S CONWAY MORRIS/JIAN HAN It may not look much like Aunty Jean or Uncle Bob, but this tiny sea creature could be your olde ...

PREPARE YOURSELF FOR TOMORROW PHOTO: BRETT GUNDLOCK DRONING ON As if the traffic wasn’t bad enough in Mexico City, these commute ...

HEALTH VIRTUAL REALITY You can touch this With the VR revolution gathering pace, the ability to provide haptic feedback – a sens ...

FIVE REASONS TO SWITCH Nintendo is re-inventing the console again... 1 PLAY WHEREVER YOU LIKE The heart of the Switch is a 6.2-i ...

Books to prepare you for a dystopian future | BOOKS ON THE SHELVES 1XMOVIESDB, 7XGOODREADS, 2XPUFFINIDIA READ WORDS: MOSHITA PRA ...

New Reads Carve The Mark Veronica Roth Where there is evil, there must be good. Violence and vengeance rule in galaxies and, to ...

GADGETS STYLOPHONE GEN X-1 The popular ’60s musical toy gets a 21st-century makeover. The new Gen X-1 version takes the basic an ...

BREATHE EASY ONE-LINK ENVIROCAMI T20:T20 VISION FUJIFILM X-T20 This X-T20 camera replaces the X-T10 in Fujifilm’s APS-C range. I ...

| AROUND THE WORLD TRAVEL & FOOD The Kakku Pagoda Complex in Taunggyi has over 2,500 stupas clustered together in just one s ...

5 GREAT-TO-KNOW FACTS ABOUT ALCATRAZ, SAN FRANCISCO, THE USA Alcatraz was once known to be America’s most notorious prison. Ove ...

Natural-born killer LEMBEH, INDONESIA This blue and white harlequin shrimp was snapped by photographer Aldo Costa, who spotted i ...

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Harsh climes DANAKIL DEPRESSION, ETHIOPIA The Dallol salt dome, seen here, rises from the floor of the Danakil Depression – part ...

ILLUSTRATION: ANDY POTTS | ANTHROPOLOGY SCIENCE ...