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Editor's note
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Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, or BJ Habibie, the former president of Indonesia is dead. He was an excellent engineer who built the country’s aircraft industry from scratch. During his stint as Indonesia’s research and technology minister, he quickly became known for his pioneering breakthroughs and forward thinking in adopting research and technology for industrial purposes. Tangguh Chairil remembers him as a true engineer, who even during this brief political career, analysed problems from their roots before seeking solutions.
Scientists tend to know very little about exoplanets – planets orbiting stars other than our sun - other than just their mass and radius.That said, there are at least a dozen exoplanets, out of the 4000 that we know about, with the potential to support life. And now, writes Angelos Tsiaras, scientists have made a major breakthrough, for the first time detecting water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet thought to be rocky and in the habitable zone – making it the best candidate for hosting life to date.
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Ika Krismantari
Deputi Editor Eksekutif
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Top Stories
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Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
Barbara Walton/EPA
Tangguh Chairil, Binus University
Indonesia's top engineer and former president, Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie or B.J. Habibie, who built the country's aircraft industry from scratch, died at 83 in Jakarta on Wednesday.
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Artist’s impression of planet K2-18 b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system.
ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
Angelos Tsiaras, UCL
K2-18 b is now the exoplanet most likely to be habitable.
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Politics + Society
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Chukwuma Al Okoli, Federal University Lafia
Banditry in northern Nigeria is making an already precarious security situation in the region worse.
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Alex Waterman, University of Leeds
In India's far northeast, tensions are beginning to emerge in the 22-year peace process to end India's longest insurgency.
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Arts + Culture
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Nicholas Hoare, Australian National University
She left Sydney Ladies' College at 14 to marry an alcoholic future king. But the life of Queen Marau deserves to be written outside the shadow of her royal husband.
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Ari Mattes, University of Notre Dame Australia
Culturally, the joker turns socially significant places into spaces of carnival, revealing cracks within the social order. He is an enduring character – and a common figure in 2019.
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Science + Technology
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Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University
Why do astronomers believe there's dark matter when it cannot be directly detected? Lets look at the evidence, and see what dark matter's presence means for our universe.
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