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Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage

Life

Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage

New book Ahab's Rolling Sea highlights our destructiveness as it teases fact from fiction in Moby-Dick, the obsessive hunt for a great white whale

Culture

Will the planet ever be free from the scourge of polio?

Health

Will the planet ever be free from the scourge of polio?

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Wealthy families in prehistoric Europe may have had live-in slaves

Humans

Wealthy families in prehistoric Europe may have had live-in slaves

News

Longer life, flying, mind-bending drugs: Dreams that science made real

Comment

Longer life, flying, mind-bending drugs: Dreams that science made real

Comment

How beautiful scientific instruments transformed Britain

Technology

How beautiful scientific instruments transformed Britain

Culture

Technology

How the US almost introduced a universal basic income – 50 years ago

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Louisa Aldrich-Blake: a trailblazer for female surgeons and a war hero

Health

Louisa Aldrich-Blake: a trailblazer for female surgeons and a war hero

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mosquito

Life

Mosquitoes may have killed half the people who ever lived

Culture

Why genetically modified 'golden rice' failed to conquer the world

Technology

Why genetically modified 'golden rice' failed to conquer the world

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The wheel

Definition

When was the wheel invented?

Uruk, 5,500 years ago. The Sumerian city is a splendid sight, the largest and richest human settlement the world has ever seen.

Environment

Ancient Earth reveals terrifying consequences of future global warming

Features

People in Science

Ignaz Semmelweis

People in Science

Joseph Lister

People in Science

Robert Koch