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Midgley

Health

Inventor hero was a one-man environmental disaster

From poisonous cars to the destruction of the ozone layer, Thomas Midgley almost single-handedly invented a global environmental crisis, finds Fred Pearce

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Space

The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe

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Kasparov with his head in his hands

Technology

Human vs Machine: Five epic fights against AI

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Life

Send an ear: Listening for sounds of life in the solar system

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Humans

First words: The surprisingly simple foundation of language

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Kasparov

Humans

We don’t need to lose out to machines, says the man who did

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Humans

The appetite genes: Why some of us are born to eat too much

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Physics

The quantum leak that could give rise to dark energy

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Technology

Wake-up call: How turbulence could reveal secret nuclear subs

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Varian brothers

Technology

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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Health

Proof in the pudding: Myth-busting 15 common cooking tips

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Earth

Where the wind blows: Mapping our wildest gusts

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Life

Resurrected organisms reveal life鈥檚 bare essentials

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Earth

The day Mount St Helens erupted and I should have died

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