Kath Nightingale

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Extreme experiments: The laboratories that are pushing science to its limits © Science Photo Library

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Extreme experiments: The laboratories that are pushing science to its limits

MANDATORY BYLINE - PIC BY HENNY BOOGERT / CATERS NEWS - (PICTURED Wim Hoff doing yoga on the ice) Heres a man who doesnt mind getting the cold shoulder from his best friend - because that friend is the ICEMAN. Photographer Henny Boogert has compiled an amazing record of his friend Wim Hof - after first meeting him more than 25 years ago doing naked yoga in the SNOW. Dutchman Wim is a eight-times world record holder - dubbed the Iceman - for his incredible ability to withstand freezing temperatures. In Finland in 2009 he completed a half marathon in minus 20C wearing nothing but shorts and in 2008 he spent an incredible 1 hour, 13 minutes and 48 seconds immersed in an ice bath. Friend Henny, 49, also from Holland, has followed Wim to some of the coldest places on the planet to record his amazing feats. The pair have travelled to polar ice caps, vast glaciers and even a giant FREEZER where Henny and Wim had to play a game of CHESS.. SEE CATERS COPY. PIC TAKEN 24/6/2010

Meet the real-life superhumans pushing the limits of human ability

A digital representation of the human genome © Getty Images

Science history How we unravelled the structure of DNA

Photo 51 © KCL

Photo 51: the key discovery behind the structure of DNA

Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) © Getty Images

Understanding DNA: Five key scientists who unravelled the helix

Pioneer geneticist biologist James Watson with a molecular model of DNA, 1957 © Getty Images)

DNA: a timeline of discoveries

Around 150,000 animal species have evolved the ability to produce venom © Zoltan Takacs

The bite that cures How we’re turning venom into medicine