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Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke made important contributions to numerous areas of science, including some of the first studies of living things using microscopes.

Ivan Pavlov

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Ivan Pavlov

Representation of Claudius Ptolemy with a rule and stars

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Claudius Ptolemy

Portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci

Space

Don’t miss: Renaissance investigations, social insights and space cops

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This Tank Man image from Tiananmen Square heralded a new digital age

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This Tank Man image from Tiananmen Square heralded a new digital age

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Physics

From the archives: How a cosmic illusion proved Einstein’s relativity

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Georgios Papanikolaou: inventor of the Pap smear cervical cancer test

Health

Georgios Papanikolaou: inventor of the Pap smear cervical cancer test

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How Lucy Wills discovered a medical marvel in Marmite

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How Lucy Wills discovered a medical marvel in Marmite

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Svalbard vault

Earth

Underland is a profound journey into the mirror world of the dead

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Athena Promachos sculpture

Technology

How games like Assassin's Creed give us a feel for history

One of the great extras of playing games like Assassin's Creed is their sense of historical time and place, even letting us play at translating ancient hieroglyphics

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Environment

Signs of human climate change influence on drought traced back to 1900

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Space

From the archives: How do you get astronauts back from space?

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Life

Don't miss: Missing women, metallic mysteries and a classic dystopia

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Nazi sub is being destroyed by bacteria due to Deepwater Horizon spill

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