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The space shuttle
Yuri Gagarin
Earth
How the stunning Earthrise became the world’s most famous photograph
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Earth
Timefulness review – our impulsive and pugnacious age needs geology
Culture
Space
Old Scientist: 1968 was the surprising year of space race gloom
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Technology
Going Underground: British Rail’s 1970s plans for a channel tunnel
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Life
A startling sexual side-effect to yawning – and other past stories
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Humans
A trip into the past: Swiss watches, Korean ginseng and UK tea breaks
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Health
Time travel to Augusts past: cold cod, thawing mammoths, frozen nerves
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Technology
Remembering when unverifiable anecdotes first took over the internet
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Environment
Old Scientist: Glancing at ads from the past
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Humans
Old Scientist: When product naming goes spectacularly wrong
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