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Hot ice: The invisible threat making planes fall out of the sky

Why did Air France flight 447 plunge into the Atlantic? Only now are we close to understanding a stealthy phenomenon that has been downing planes for decades

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Filthy Romans: Dirty secrets of the bath-obsessed ancients

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A visual tour of the weird world of the cryogenically frozen

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A visual tour of the weird world of the cryogenically frozen

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Murray Ballard, from the book 'The Prospect of Immortality'

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9 things you need to know about cryogenically freezing your body

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D. J. MacLennan

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Why I signed up to have my head cryogenically frozen

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Ark of the immortals: The future-proof plan to freeze out death

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Max More

Humans

I want to put your death on ice so that you can live again

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Murray Ballard, from the book 'The Prospect of Immortality'

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Some people choose to be frozen at death. Here's how it happens

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Carlo Rovelli

Physics

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

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Fixed by light: Flick a switch to banish pain and blindness

Parkinson's, blindness, chronic pain and more could all be cured using optogenetics – a revolutionary therapy that has just begun its first trial in humans

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Find your meaning at work: 6 things a salary can't buy

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Humans

What happens if we pay everyone just to live?

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Technology

Can machines take our jobs without ruining our lives?

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Humans

The world's oldest paycheck was cashed in beer

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