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Inside the inner ear
Butterflies below deck
Curious caves
Behind the space veil
Chimps use ‘hi’ and ‘bye’ greetings
NEW ISLAND DISCOVERED CLOSE TO THE NORTH POLE
Pi calculated to a recordbreaking 62.8 trillion digits
Young star reveals what our Sun may have looked like
WEIRD ‘DOG BONE’ ASTEROID COULD BE COSMIC RUBBLE
Five-metre-long sea monster ruled ancient Kansas ocean
Lab-made mini brains grow their own ‘eyes’
‘PERFECT’ MARS ROCK SAMPLE DRILLED FROM THE RED PLANET
Strange objects discovered past Neptune
Cookiecutter sharks terrorise animals of all sizes
RAIN FALLS ON GREENLAND’S SUMMIT FOR THE FIRST TIME
Strange signal near Milky Way’s centre has scientists stumped
WISH LIST • The latest tech in MICROSCOPES
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GADGETS WITH LICENSE TO THRILL • From space lasers and ships that can’t be seen on radar to jet packs and submersible cars, how 007’s tech has moved from fiction to fact
THE INVISIBLE SHIP
ROBOTIC CANINES
5 FACTS ABOUT BOND WATCHES AND WEAPONS
ONE TOUGH AUTOMOBILE
GOING ORBITAL
NO, MR BOND… I EXPECT YOU TO DIE
INSIDE APPLE’S NEW IMAC • Uncover the technology behind the 24-inch M1
5 BENEFITS OF SOLAR PANELS
HOW SOLAR PANELS WORK • From sunlight to light bulbs, this technology creates electricity from a natural resource
COMPUTER KEYBOARD TECH EXPLAINED • What makes this modern typewriter work?
HOW DOES GOOGLE EARTH WORK? • The app that puts the world in the hands of anyone with a smartphone or computer
HYDROGEN BUS POWER • Inside the world’s first clean-energy double-decker bus: the Hydroliner
5 FACTS METHODS FOR PRODUCING HYDROGEN
HOW OUR CLIMATE is CHANGING • Here are eight signs of the human impact on Earth’s climate and environment
CLIMATE CHANGE by numbers
10 DEADLY VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS • How Earth’s fiery outbursts remind us of our planet’s power and unpredictability
AMAZON OF THE OCEAN • Explore the lively reefs of Southeast Asia’s Coral Triangle
5 OF THE TRIANGLE’S MANY SPECIES
WHAT IS THE ARK OF THE COVENANT? • Does this fabled chest – said to hold tablets engraved with the Ten Commandments – actually exist?
WELCOME TO THE CRADLE OF CIVILISATION • How the ancient society of Pakistan’s Indus Valley shaped the modern world
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Could we build… TOTAL RECALL? • From Mars colonies to memory implants, a look at the science behind this 1990 classic
Creating FALSE MEMORIES
5 FACTS THE SCIENCE OF TOTAL RECALL
TESTING HAWKING’S THEORIES • Which of Stephen Hawking’s explanations turned out to be right?
5 THEORIES SCIENTISTS ARE UNSURE ABOUT
HOW BABIES ARE MADE • The fusion of sex cells that begins the great journey of pregnancy
IN VITRO FERTILISATION
ONE BABY, ROOM FOR ONE MORE THREE PARENTS
THE SCIENCE OF STEM CELLS
EMBRYO GROWTH • What allows embryos to develop such complex structures? We speak with Dr Megan...