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Technology

The Victorian monster destruction engine

"The best-hated man in England" built a huge machine to test 19th-century engineering 鈥� and it can still rend steel slabs. Sumit Paul-Choudhury pays a visit

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What do you want the Testing Machine to destroy?

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Humans

Losing our religion: Your guide to a godless future

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Life

Bird brainiacs: The genius of pigeons

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Health

Survival of the fattest: Why we’re wrong about obesity

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Life

The mirror crack’d: Why physics is lopsided

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Health

Weird thought-generator: How society’s fears shape OCD

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Earth

Aliens versus predators: The toxic toad invasion

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Life

One rule of life: Are we poised on the border of order?

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Space

Big bang breakthrough: The dark side of inflation

The sighting of gravitational waves from the universe's birth is a great advance 鈥� but if confirmed might also be the ultimate setback for cosmology

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Earth

No more primal soup: Creating life without water

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Physics

Mystery physics: What does the M in M-theory mean?

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Health

Heritage plaque: Our ancestors’ health read from teeth

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Space

Shakespeare: Did radical astronomy inspire Hamlet?

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