Space
Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning
Fifty years ago, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered a mysterious, pulsing radio signal 鈥� and the downsides of being a young woman in science
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Technology
Time to bust the myth that Ada Lovelace was an overhyped aristo
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Humans
Bronze Age DNA helps unravel true fate of biblical Canaanites
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Humans
DNA of long-dead cows read from pages of Medieval books
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Life
See inside the 580-million-year-old creature no one understands
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Earth
The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth
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Life
Meticulous engravings that gave first glimpse of the invisible
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Mary Somerville: Queen of 19th-century science
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Physics
Brecht鈥檚 Life of Galileo pumped up for the 21st century
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The US inventors who helped the RAF win the Battle of Britain
The Varian brothers were an creative force to be reckoned with. They gave Allied fighter planes an edge in the air and helped shape a nascent Silicon Valley
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Environment
Joseph Hooker: The travelling man who became Emperor of Botany
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Ancient humans: What we know and still don鈥檛 know about them
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Did Goya get an autoimmune disease before his art went scary?
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The 1830s seamstress who solved Aristotle鈥檚 octopus mystery
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