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Space

Looking back at Viking, the first mission to Mars

Forty years ago, the Viking mission set the stage for real science in space 鈥� and without a human in sight. The Smithsonian pays tribute

Turing machine

Technology

How Alan Turing found machine thinking in the human mind

seed bank

Earth

Face to face in the Arctic with a terrifying new sublime

Green expanse surrounded by the buildings of Newcastle upon Tyne

Humans

Sound artist Chris Watson listens to a city breathe

Hive from outside

Environment

Listen to secrets of a honeybee hive in Kew鈥檚 latest sculpture

trees in wood

Earth

One man’s little slice of nature is a historical microcosm

Health

It鈥檚 harder than you might think to appreciate silence

A boy and a girl looking out of a train window

Humans

Perfect people: How tomorrow鈥檚 children will make babies

Photographic contact sheet showing images of a doorway, a hanging coat and a window in a derelict house

Humans

Stolen penises and other exotic psychological tales

Click festival

Technology

Theatre and dance are full-on and fearless at Click festival

From fluctuating point clouds to reactive bubbles and writhing dancers, theatrics dominate one of Europe鈥檚 most unmissable festivals

Technology

Ancient arts trump game-playing in virtual-reality documentaries

Life

Richard Dawkins’s biomorphs come back to life

Technology

How New York fashion show owes its success to old encyclopaedia

Environment

Making squirrels count and other dumb animal intelligence tests