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Striking photos show scale of development in sub-Saharan Africa

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Striking photos show scale of development in sub-Saharan Africa

These arresting images of industrial developments in Senegal, South Africa and Namibia were taken by Edward Burtynsky, who spent four years capturing African landscapes using aerial photography

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year photos are out of this world

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year photos are out of this world

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TOP IMAGE - Jason deCaires Taylor, Rubicon, 2016. Picture credit: @jasondecairestaylor(page 181) Stainless steel, pH-neutral cement, basalt and aggregates,installation view, Museo Atl?ntico, Las Coloradas, Lanzarote, Atlantic Ocean

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Art of the ocean: How artists have depicted the marine world

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FEATURED IMAGE NASA/Andy Saunders (Digital Source: Stephen Slater)

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Remastered Apollo mission photos are simply out of this world

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Roberto Garc?a-Roa

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Grisly photo of a zombie fungus bursting from a fly wins competition

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FEATURE CROP ONLY Galileos watercolours of the moon 'By courtesy of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiBACT), Central National Library of Florence, Ban of Reproduction

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Scientific illustrations illuminate work by Galileo, Einstein and more

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FEATURE IMAGE - Alzheimer's Society research - brain stem cells. Researchers like Dr Charlie Arber use stem cells - cells which don't have a?special function yet - to grow human brain cells in a dish. This can help to understand how dementia starts. This flower-like picture shows a neural rosette - a group of cells which are half way to becoming a brain cells. The green strands are cells turning into brain cells around the edges of the rosette. Copyright: Dr Charlie Arber, UCL.

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Amazing Bed of Rosettes photo captures beauty of dementia research

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The larva of Ippa conspersa attacks a worker of the host ant, probably Lasius nipponensis

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Ants are under attack from outsiders in these intimate photos

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Astonishing photos of potential new species from the Pacific seabed

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Astonishing photos of potential new species from the Pacific seabed

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Cameraless photography creates lockdown 'supernovae' at home

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Cameraless photography creates lockdown 'supernovae' at home

These entrancing orbs look like something plucked from distant universes, but they were in fact created by photographer Charlotte Greenwood using her own spin on cliché-verre printing

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Mysterious mini-coffins for the victims of 19th-century body snatchers

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Stunning solar prominences shine in photography competition

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Like a child eating candyfloss: see a green turtle tuck into jellyfish

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Striking photos of jellyfish shed light on the enigmatic invertebrates

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