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Life on Mars: The story of meteorite ALH84001 © Getty Images

Life on Mars The story of meteorite ALH84001

Evolution of stars: The diagram that changed the Universe © Getty Images

Evolution of stars The diagram that changed the Universe

Alexander Grothendieck and the search for the heart of the mathematical universe © Getty Images

Alexander Grothendieck and the search for the heart of the mathematical universe

Conspiracies and FBI secrets: Why we love UFOs © Getty Images

Conspiracies and FBI secrets Why we love UFOs

Two easy outdoor science experiments for kids © Getty Images

Two amazingly easy indoor food experiments to try out with the kids

How Carl Linnaeus used scientific naming to throw some serious shade © Getty Images

How Carl Linnaeus used scientific naming to throw serious shade

An interview with Isaac Newton on his legacy, alchemy and the apple (Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), 1710. Private Collection © Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Everyday science

An interview with Isaac Newton on his legacy, alchemy and the apple

How long could you live off body fat alone? © Getty Images

How long could you live off body fat alone?

Where does the sense of direction come from? © Getty Images

Where does our sense of direction come from within the brain?

What does the world look like outside of our brains? © Getty Images

Dr Rahul Jandial "Some people like skiing, or mountain climbing, or playing poker. I like operating on people’s brains"

How to discover a new particle © Getty Images

Everyday science

How to discover a new particle

© David Tipling

14 stunning photos of birds making incredible journeys across the Earth

Calories and nutrients: the complex calculations we do every day © Getty Images

Calories and nutrients: the complex calculations we do every day

Why a carbon tax could be the answer to climate change © Getty Images

Why a carbon tax could be the answer to climate change

Is women's health really all that bad? © Getty Images

Is women’s health really all that bad?