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The Human Genome Project

There was a time when the human body was a mystery told primarily through observation. Doctors listened to hearts, studied…

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Science

Coral Reefs and Ocean Acidification

If you could drain the ocean from a coral reef and walk across what remained, you might be tempted to…

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The Science of Flight and How Planes Actually Stay Up

One of the most remarkable things you can witness is something so familiar that most of us barely give it…

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History

The History of Glass

Glass begins with one of the oldest partnerships in human history: earth and fire. Long before anyone understood its chemistry,…

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Exoplanets and the Hunt for Alien Life

On a quiet night, when the stars settle into their ancient positions and the sky feels vast enough to swallow…

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The Big Bang and the Birth of the Universe

If you were to stand outside on a clear night and look up, you would see stars, thousands of them,…

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Biographies

Richard Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman was born in New York City on 11 May 1918, but the landscape that shaped his childhood…

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Science

The Periodic Table and How it Came to be

Walk into almost any science classroom, and you’ll find it pinned to a wall: a neat grid of colourful squares,…

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Science

The Structure of the Atom

If you were to take an ordinary object, the nearest coin in your pocket, a splash of water, a book…

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Biographies

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8 January 1823 at Llanbadoc, near Usk in Monmouthshire, which is now part of…

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