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Health

Gallery of terrifying gynaecological tools from past 200 years

These don't look like the kinds of things you might want inserted in your body – but these instruments have been gynaecological staples for hundreds of years

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Swirling wall of moving patterns represents our thoughts

Humans

Swirling wall of moving patterns represents our thoughts

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Baffin Bay

Earth

Join NASA's Operation IceBridge on its icy polar mission

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jaguar with turtle

Life

This big cat's seafood snack is an endangered turtle

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neon swirls

Space

The neon swirls that show how a map of our galaxy is made

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burr 1

Life

The spiky but stunning burrs that litter the South African coast

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goby

Life

The hypnotic face and emerald eyes of the yellow pygmy goby

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mould on slide

Life

Mould gets artistic to take particle decay photo to a new level

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pygmy sloth

Life

The pint-sized pygmy sloth found only on one island in the world

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Jupiter

Space

Stunning shot of Jupiter's swirling storms taken by Juno camera

NASA’s Juno spacecraft took this image on 7 February from a spot more than 8000 kilometres above Jupiter’s northern cloud tops

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Life

Where eagles dare to dumpster dive

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Earth

These strange lines of cloud are seeded by pollution from ships

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Life

Drone captures humpback whales catching krill with bubbles

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Space

Delicate solar panels of Martian lander are tested before launch

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