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Red Symons: I may not forgive you

Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment is often depicted wrongly – what does that mean for how we teach science?

Trove saved with a crucial funding boost

The true story and history of the chicken

Scientists decode Beethoven’s genome, do we know what really killed him?

Decrypted letters discovered to come from a shock source: Mary, Queen of Scots

Honouring forgotten women scientists, mathematicians, programmers and palaeontologists

Mayan city collapse over 500 years ago linked to drought and social instability

Where did the Black Death originally come from?

Were these ancient vessels actually 'hand grenades'?

The Kessler syndrome

The man who won two Nobel Prizes

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