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Great moments in engineering

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Great moments in engineering

Australia’s national treasure Dr Karl on making “free electricity”, Murphy’s law, engineering in childbirth and other “strange engineering”

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Seeing inside Earth’s secrets using cosmic muons

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Seeing inside Earth’s secrets using cosmic muons

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hydrogel muscle

Technology

Self-growing material could make muscles that become stronger with use

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Physics

Time Tries All Things review – Take time out to enjoy a dreamlike show

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Physics

The emptiness of space has a structure we could use to send messages

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Megawave recreated in the lab looks just like Hokusai's Great Wave

Physics

Megawave recreated in the lab looks just like Hokusai's Great Wave

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What's inside nothing? This laser will rip it up to find out

Physics

What's inside nothing? This laser will rip it up to find out

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A fish in a dark background

Space

Astronauts could use fish and human waste to grow food on long trips

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Mathematician’s record-beating formula can generate 50 prime numbers

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Mathematician’s record-beating formula can generate 50 prime numbers

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'We'll die before we find the answer': Crisis at the heart of physics

Physics

'We'll die before we find the answer': Crisis at the heart of physics

Ambitious new theories dreamed up to explain reality have led us nowhere. Meet the hardcore physicists trying to think their way out of this black hole

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Humans

Don't miss: Star-studded art, weird tides and smart cities

Culture

Life

How hagfish can make enough slime to clog a shark's jaws in seconds

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What do you do with the world's most powerful laser?

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Health

A ghostly trick produces X-ray images with a lower dose of radiation

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