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Michel Chasles

Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

Patriotic fervour gripped Paris with proof that Isaac Newton had stolen his theory of gravity from a Frenchman – but the details looked distinctly fishy

Features

The Twilight Zone play, Cosmo Jarvis and Oliver Alvin-Wilson on stage

Humans

You’ve just crossed over… The Twilight Zone takes to the stage

Culture

Venice may be almost 200 years older than anyone thought

Humans

Venice may be almost 200 years older than anyone thought

News

the 1959 Sokolniki Park exhibition, where Khrushchev debated kitchens with Nixon, and citizens admired the latest TV sets

Humans

The Soviet genius who tried to beat capitalism at its own game

Features

Scott's team of five standing at the pole on 18 January 1912, immediately following their discovery that they were not the first to arrive

Humans

Scott’s tragic polar selfie: Rare photo goes under the hammer

Culture

Spallanzani

Life

The ingenious priest who discovered how bats 'see' in the dark

Features

zebra carriage

Life

The tortoise-riding banker who collected the natural world

Features

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

Humans

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

News

Trofim Lysenko measures wheat growth

Humans

5 'mad scientists' of post-Revolution Russia

Features

A beach on Hainan

Earth

Early farmers may have polluted the sea 4000 years ago

Heavy metals including cadmium and lead are unusually common in sediments from the South China Sea, hinting that run-off from farms was spilling into the ocean 4000 years ago

News

Humans

Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

Features

Physics

The Renaissance gambler who invented probability to win at cards

Features

Technology

7 crazy transport systems that didn't go the distance

Features

Humans

We seem to be getting stupider and population ageing may be why

News