Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke made important contributions to numerous areas of science, including some of the first studies of living things using microscopes.
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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鈥檚 relativity
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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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Earth
Underland is a profound journey into the mirror world of the dead
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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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Space
From the archives: How do you get astronauts back from space?
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Environment
Signs of human climate change influence on drought traced back to 1900
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Nazi sub is being destroyed by bacteria due to Deepwater Horizon spill
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Environment
From the archives: 1989, the warmest year on record
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