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Doomed crew seeking Northwest Passage didn’t die from lead poisoning

Humans

Doomed crew seeking Northwest Passage didn’t die from lead poisoning

The Franklin expedition disappeared in 1845. One theory suggests lead in the crew’s diet impaired their judgement – but a new analysis suggests otherwise

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Ancient palace in Samarra

Humans

The ancient palaces of Iraq glittered with a special type of glass

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People wearing protective clothing

Technology

Nanobots can eat nerve agents and then spit out an antidote

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Lifting an underwater robot out of the water

Technology

The underwater drones that hunt for oil spills beneath the waves

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Melting gallium

Physics

Watch a ‘heart’ made from liquid gallium beat in an electric field

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A spaghetti-like crystal

Physics

Strange spaghetti crystals shrink when hot and wet

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Novichok poisoning: How could it happen again in Salisbury?

Health

Novichok poisoning: How could it happen again in Salisbury?

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Don't miss: immortality in New York, sulphur and science comedy

Life

Don't miss: immortality in New York, sulphur and science comedy

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A lump of gold

Chemistry

New form of gold is much golder than normal gold

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H2Oh! 10 mysteries of water

Earth

H2Oh! 10 mysteries of water

Water has a host of unusual properties – many of which are essential for life. Here we round up ten of the most peculiar

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Earth

H2Oh! Water is actually two liquids disguised as one

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Earth

Mystery ozone-destroying gases linked to badly recycled fridges

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Life

Lizards keep evolving toxic green blood and we don't know why

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Physics

Upend atom! We've found a whole new way of doing chemistry

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