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Reaping the whirlwind of Nazi eugenics

In the 1960s, eugenics was reinvented as behaviour genetics, but soon went back off the rails. Aaron Panofsky's Misbehaving Science explores what happened

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Technology

Revealing all: A history of secret writing

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Space

How the moon lost its magic even before Apollo 11

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Space

Curiosity piqued: The minds behind the Mars missions

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Technology

Acoustic art and industrial architecture make music

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Earth

Park the eco-apocalypse for a journey of hope

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Earth

Russia’s relentless quest for Arctic fuel treasure

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Life

Dr Death: The gruesome career of a Victorian poisoner

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Health

A film homage to a brain-damaged friend

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Environment

Talking dolphins and the love story that wasn’t

The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins explores a 1960s project to teach a dolphin English, but its true significance has been buried in sexual innuendo

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Logical armour: A primer in mathematical self-defence

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Earth

Heroic and humble quests for overlooked animals

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Physics

A straight-talking woman’s guide to dark matter

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The war on pain and why we can’t win it

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