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Sunfish and sharks get the Body Worlds treatment

Monsters of the deep are the latest creatures to be immortalised by an infusion of plastic


Key to quantum gravity may lurk in cosmic haze

Any blurry observations of distant objects could suggest the universe itself is blurry at a minute scale, and hint at how to build a theory of quantum gravity


Feedback: Nominative determinism redux

Rigorous riparian research, nominative contradeterminism, whistleblowers: don't blow it and more


How many girls mask autism spectrum disorder, like me?

ASD is affecting more females than people realise – we're just better at compensating for it, like I did with Asperger's syndrome, says Hannah Belcher



Flatland: An unseen art installation

It's theatre like no other. Robbed of sight you experience this play through sound, movement and touch – with a haptic cube as your guide


Origami doughnut squashes up to protect what's inside Movie Camera

The folds on this paper ring are precision-made by a laser so that when it's compressed, the hole at its centre stays the same size and protects its contents


Not just a headache: How migraine changes your brain

Migraine changes the way you experience the world all the time, not just during an attack. It's time for a new approach to treatment


Fast star first fled from a supernova, now the galaxy

The fastest star in the Milky Way is high-tailing it out of here at 1200 kilometres a second after surviving its sibling star's death as a massive supernova


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