Earth
Strange love for cold-war-era slide rules
There's a certain scary fascination in circular slide rules designed to calculate environmental conditions following a nuclear holocaust
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Health
Boost for cancer therapy sought by Ashya King’s family
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Physics
The surprising power of the unseen
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Space
Biggest X-ray eye in space to hunt hot cosmic objects
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Physics
Water that stays liquid below freezing probed by lasers
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Mummy X-rays let you peel its body to reveal insides
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Life
Surreal X-ray movie reveals how a fly beats its wings
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Fresh evidence emerges for superheavy element 115
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Life
Lasers watch plant roots grow in transparent soil
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Technology
How was airline bomb made to be ‘undetectable’?
Intelligence officials say they have foiled a plan to bring down a plane using an explosive device that would not be detected by airline security
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X-ray hazard for people with obesity
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Health
How did surgeons separate conjoined twins?
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Physics
X-rays show why van Gogh’s yellows have darkened
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Space
Deep space X-ray flash is most powerful ever recorded
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