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Technology

See inside a condom factory and what it takes to keep sex safe

It starts with wood and ends in foil packets – what happens in between? Some condoms take a pounding without even leaving the factory to test their durability

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Glen Canyon

Earth

Space view makes for an eerie sight of the Colorado river

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Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize

Life

Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize

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Giant antler bones

Life

The deer whose antlers spanned three-and-a-half metres

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coloured sludge

Earth

Crimson streaks of industrial waste criss-cross the Mississippi

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Technology

A not-so-delicate buttercup crafted from metal

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brain slicing

Humans

Immortalising human brains at the world's largest brain bank

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storm

Upside-down clouds grow down and cascade across the Kansas sky

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pharaoh eagle-owl

Life

Swooping pharaoh eagle-owl hunts in the desert

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caribou carcass

Earth

See the Alaskan village that voted to flee climate change

The island dwellers of Shishmaref could soon be hunting on the mainland: the whole village may shift there to escape worsening coastal erosion and thawing

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Life

6000 people cram into one pool in China to beat the heat

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Life

See the creepy-crawly stowaways in a 3000-year-old loaf of bread

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Earth

Rainbow cake mountains show stunning slices of colour

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Space

Inside NASA's towering rocket factory before deep space mission

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