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Dr. Jim Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York

Environment

From the archives: 1989, the warmest year on record

Thirty years ago, James Hansen became the first climate scientist to publicly blame humans for global warming

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Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory

Humans

Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory

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A medieval nun scribe

Humans

Medieval dental plaque suggests women played important role as scribes

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Life

From the archives: When Soviet tanks crushed Czech science

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Technology

Answers: What were these six bamboozling inventions designed to do?

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ellipsograph

Technology

Quiz: What were these six bamboozling inventions designed to do?

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landscape

Humans

Unearthed! The missing Native American city on the Great Plains

Features

They Shall Not Grow Old review: Restored footage brings war to life

Technology

They Shall Not Grow Old review: Restored footage brings war to life

Culture

puppeteers

Life

The Wider Earth review – Darwin's Beagle days make a gripping play

Culture

astronauts

Space

Old Scientist: 1968 was the surprising year of space race gloom

Fifty years ago this week, the US had just completed a successful Apollo mission. So why was everyone depressed?

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Life

Edge of Memory: Distrusting oral tradition may make us more ignorant

Culture

Earth

How a janitor wowed Darwin by solving the ice age mystery

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Technology

Yuval Noah Harari: Why the reluctant guru is upsetting scientists

Culture

Earth

Did ancient Mayan civilisation collapse because of a sudden drought?

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