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...centre. Here we look at what two upcoming missions hope to achieve and why this is important for space scientists and astrobiologists...Europa was first glimpsed up-close by the Pioneer and Voyager probes in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until the Galileo mission in the 1990s and early 2000s that our current understanding of Europa as a potentially habitable world developed....

...researchers were trying to make cheaper and better alternatives to nicotine as insecticides. In their search, German scientists made two organic compounds containing phosphorus that were very effective at killing insect pests. However, they soon discovered that, even in minuscule amounts, the substances caused distressing symptoms in humans exposed to them. The two...