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Stunning Tutankhamun show brings pharaoh's golden afterlife to London

Humans

Stunning Tutankhamun show brings pharaoh's golden afterlife to London

From King Tutankhamun's golden slippers to a silver trumpet – plus 60 objects never seen outside Egypt – catch a global exhibition of the boy-king’s funerary objects

Culture

Wealthy families in prehistoric Europe may have had live-in slaves

Humans

Wealthy families in prehistoric Europe may have had live-in slaves

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Longer life, flying, mind-bending drugs: Dreams that science made real

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Longer life, flying, mind-bending drugs: Dreams that science made real

Comment

How beautiful scientific instruments transformed Britain

Technology

How beautiful scientific instruments transformed Britain

Culture

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Technology

How the US almost introduced a universal basic income – 50 years ago

Regulars

Louisa Aldrich-Blake: a trailblazer for female surgeons and a war hero

Health

Louisa Aldrich-Blake: a trailblazer for female surgeons and a war hero

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Why genetically modified 'golden rice' failed to conquer the world

Technology

Why genetically modified 'golden rice' failed to conquer the world

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Life

Mosquitoes may have killed half the people who ever lived

Culture

The wheel

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When was the wheel invented?

Perito Moreno glacier

Environment

Ancient Earth reveals terrifying consequences of future global warming

Lessons from the deep past reveal that human-induced warming could create more extreme conditions than Earth has ever experienced

Features

People in Science

Ignaz Semmelweis

People in Science

Joseph Lister

People in Science

Robert Koch

People in Science

Robert Hooke

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