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Space silhouettes: Giant monuments celebrate Soviet supremacy

Moscow is filled with monuments to the space race, when the Soviet Union battled it out with the US. Danila Tkachenko captured the spirit of the age

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sporangia of ferns

Life

See the explosive life of fern fronds under the microscope

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fangtooth fish

Life

Up close with the giant teeth of the deep-sea fangtooth

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US/Mexico boundary

Humans

Monuments divide the US and Mexico – one man snapped them all

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Hacker, the humpback whale who got tangled in an internet cable

Life

Hacker, the humpback whale who got tangled in an internet cable

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Earth

Dark waves tower during violent storm on Lake Erie

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Technology

See inside a condom factory and what it takes to keep sex safe

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Glen Canyon

Earth

Space view makes for an eerie sight of the Colorado river

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Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize

Life

Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize

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Giant antler bones

Life

The deer whose antlers spanned three-and-a-half metres

Glimpsing the impressive horns of the now-extinct Irish elk has inspired artists, from cave painters to modern photographers, for thousands of years

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Earth

Crimson streaks of industrial waste criss-cross the Mississippi

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Technology

A not-so-delicate buttercup crafted from metal

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Humans

Immortalising human brains at the world's largest brain bank

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Upside-down clouds grow down and cascade across the Kansas sky

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