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Small but mighty: how the smartphone represents a modern material society © Getty Images

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Small but mighty: how the smartphone represents a modern material society

Cosmic origins: the miraculous journey from dust clouds to life © Getty Images

Cosmic origins: the miraculous journey from dust clouds to life

Telling stories: why your elderly relatives are the best storytellers © Getty Images

Telling stories: why your elderly relatives are the best storytellers

The weak nuclear interaction: the enigmatic fundamental force that makes life possible © Getty Images

Everyday science

The weak nuclear interaction The enigmatic fundamental force that makes life possible

Who cleaned the Universe? © Getty Images

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Who cleaned the Universe?

Journey underneath the skin with these amazing pictures from the new book Anatomicum

In pictures Journey underneath the skin with amazing illustrations from the new book Anatomicum

Mind design: could you merge with artificial intelligence? © Getty Images

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Mind design Could you merge with artificial intelligence?

Cosmic spacequakes and the incredible energy building elements © Getty Images

Cosmic spacequakes and their heavy metal energy

Frozen heads and future fortunes: what is the cost of digital information? © Getty Images

Future Technology

Frozen heads and future fortunes: what is the cost of digital information?

Dead and alive: why it's time to rethink quantum physics © Getty Images

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Dead and alive: why it’s time to rethink quantum physics

The history of medicinal drugs helps explain our relationship with them today © Getty Images

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History of medicine How our relationship with medical drugs evolved

James Clerk Maxwell: the most important physicist you haven't heard of © SSPL/Getty Images

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James Clerk Maxwell: the great scientist with a profound impact on modern physics

Are you smart enough to be an ISS astronaut? (Tim Peake © ESA/NASA)

Are you smart enough to be an ISS astronaut?

True or Poo? by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti is available now (£9.99, Quercus)

Can you separate the truth from the poop in these animal facts?

There's something inscrutable and mysterious about liquids © Getty Images

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There’s something inscrutable and mysterious about liquids