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Gundelach tubes

Physics

Ghostly images show the history of X-ray tubes

Some of the first machines ever built to emit X-rays have been given a taste of their own medicine - and these ghostly images are the result

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pangolin

Life

Shy pangolin hides its face in Mozambique forest

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huts in snow

Space

Forgotten mountain shrine to a Soviet superstar of astrophysics

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light pillars

Earth

Spectacular light pillars rise up in frozen North America

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earth pyramids in Alps

Earth

Otherworldly 'earth pyramids' make the Alps look alien

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mouse-opossum

Life

Ravenous rainforest resident plucks midnight snack from thin air

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California fires

Earth

California's wildfires are driven by climate and human error

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Lake Baikal ice

Earth

The sparkling ice hummocks of the world’s biggest lake

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Danakil depression

Earth

Scorching hot springs house extreme life and a future ocean

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VIIRS

Space

Giant climate camera will watch how our planet changes

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite will take pictures of Earth to measure the temperatures of the sea and atmosphere and to watch how ice and water move

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Earth

The exquisite marble that sculptor Michelangelo couldn't use

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Life

Gang of ants surgically dismembers large, dead spider on Borneo

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Physics

Peek inside a gilded cage of liquid argon made to spot neutrinos

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Life

Pied tamarin doesn't look too happy about its extreme close-up

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