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A shipwreck has been found from the time of Alexander the Great

1 December 2017

Of three wrecked ships found near Cyprus, one dates from around 330 BC and hints at a vast trading network that spanned the Mediterranean


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Rediscover the gift of reading: Best books to buy this holiday

29 November 2017

Frantic about how to please your loved ones this festive season? Take a deep breath and plunge into Âé¶¹´«Ã½'s present picks


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Letting robots kill without human supervision could save lives

8 November 2017

Calls to ban killer robots ignore the fact that human soldiers can make lethal mistakes. If driverless cars will save lives, perhaps armed machines can as well


Drone pilots deserve medals even without risking their lives

Drone pilots deserve medals even without risking their lives

22 September 2017

Remote warfare raises questions about who gets military honours, but the stress and trauma drone crews face deserves recognition, says David Hambling


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The new nuclear race: Why North Korea isn’t the real story

20 September 2017

The sabre-rattling between Pyongyang and Washington is masking a dangerous destabilisation in deterrence – making nuclear war by accident a real possibility


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Cold comfort: How chilling the lungs could beat heart attacks

9 August 2017

If you can't restart a stopped heart within 5 minutes, brain damage starts. But using the lungs as a heat exchanger to chill the blood may buy us more time


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Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives

26 July 2017

Mastering materials that have never been made before could deliver blasts big enough to shoot rockets to Mars


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Life aloft: The unexplored ecosystem above your head

7 June 2017

We have nature reserves on land and at sea, but the sky has never been considered a habitat, let alone one worth preserving, until now


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Wake-up call: How turbulence could reveal secret nuclear subs

24 May 2017

If there's truth in cold war claims about tracking subs, it would rewrite our theories of turbulence and foil our nuclear deterrent


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Where the wind blows: Mapping our wildest gusts

17 May 2017

A new wind atlas will help turbines avoid the doldrums – and solve some of wind's enduring mysteries


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