The ‘Einstein’ of the ancient Greeks
A little-known scholar from the 5th century BC, who first understood the nature of an eclipse, is seen by some as the earliest known practitioner of the scientific method
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Fifty years of DARPA: Hits, misses and ones to watch
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Heroes for hard times
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Theatrophone 鈥� the 19th-century iPod
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Film review: In the Shadow of the Moon
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The mutual poisoning society
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How the world let malaria off the hook
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Can’t bite, cant fight
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The ice age that never was
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Histories: The spinning-top railway
When Winston Churchill took a ride on a new monorail at the Japan-British exhibition of 1910, he was convinced it would revolutionise railways - so what went wrong?
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Histories: The human centrifuge
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Dr Diet’s recipe for health
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Revival of the fittest
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Guess what’s coming to dinner
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