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Earth's navel: Stare into an eye-wateringly big hole

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Earth's navel: Stare into an eye-wateringly big hole

The Siberian mining town of Mirny is home to the second-largest hole ever dug in the world, which produced a monster diamond with a ghastly name

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Meet the ancient megatrees of arid lands

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Meet the ancient megatrees of arid lands

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Portraits of the adorable creatures of the night

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Portraits of the adorable creatures of the night

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See all the copper from a mine in one giant ball

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See all the copper from a mine in one giant ball

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Soviet-era hyperboloid tower saved from destruction

Soviet-era hyperboloid tower saved from destruction

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Avast! It's a gas-filled blob with a sting in the tail

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Avast! It's a gas-filled blob with a sting in the tail

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Otherworldly view of a giant Californian wildfire

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Otherworldly view of a giant Californian wildfire

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The spy who bugged me: spook kit from the 1960s

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The spy who bugged me: spook kit from the 1960s

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Space salad glows purple in a greenhouse made for Mars

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Space salad glows purple in a greenhouse made for Mars

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Psychedelic cells are fruit of Alan Turing's equations

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Psychedelic cells are fruit of Alan Turing's equations

It looks like living cells – but this image evolved in a computer following an algorithm based on Alan Turing's ideas about the patterns on animals' bodies

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Cycling is a drag act in virtual wind tunnel

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The earth eaters mining 'Europe's biggest hole'

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The common crane and its violin cry

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A perfect negative crystal floating in space

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