REGULARS
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MEGAPIXEL
Artificial suns and groundscrapers
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SCIENCE UPDATE
Aussie robots mine the ocean depths!
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ASK US
Did this condor pick a fight with a
Boeing 747, 10 kilometres above the
ground? More importantly: did it win?
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HOME CHEMISTRY
How to test the Leidenfrost Effect
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TRIVIA
Now with more orangutan objections!
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BIODIVERSITY
Who else forgot about the bandicoot?
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FUTURE SUPER SHIPS
Next-generation cargo haulers will be
bigger than ever. So big, they might not
even fit in our ports. What do we do?
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ALL EYES ON A BIZARRE STAR
There’s a star, out there in space, that keeps
changing its light output in a very weird way.
And scientists want to know why.
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LONDON’S DEADLY FOG
Back in 1952, CO 2 was the least of London’s
worries. Weather plus pollution combined to
create a fog... a fog that could kill.
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YOUR SECRET SENSES
Think you have only five main senses? Research
points to at least seven more. And the latest
gives us something in common with doves...
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