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Liquid crystals could detect contaminated water

If you've ever dropped your mobile phone in dishwater, you can now claim you were testing the water for bacterial contamination

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Rewriting the textbooks: Confusion over nuclear fission

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Rewriting the textbooks: Hydrogen bonds in a bind

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Rewriting the textbooks: Microscopes without frontiers

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Rewriting the textbooks: Magnetic north without south

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Rewriting the textbooks: Einstein’s cosmological fudge

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Unbreakable: Somerton Man’s poetic mystery

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Unbreakable: Beale’s buried treasure

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Unbreakable: The MIT time-lock puzzle

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Unbreakable: Kryptos, a monument to CIA secrecy

What is the secret of a sculpture at CIA headquarters? Two decades and tens of thousands of attempts haven't broken it, says MacGregor Campbell

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Unbreakable: The Voynich manuscript

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Unbreakable: Elgar’s unread message

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Unbreakable: The second world war’s last Enigma

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Unbreakable: Who was the Zodiac killer?

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