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Alex Bellos samples Simon Beck’s stunning mathematical drawings, created by running in snowshoes across freshly laid snow in the Alps
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Shooting huge amounts of non-ozone-harming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere could counteract vast volcanic sulphur clouds that cause perpetual winters, new research suggests
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It's been a month of technological firsts, from the unveiling of the flying car to the Queen joining Twitter, but have you kept up with all the science news?
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Danish researchers find that doctors using the C-reactive protein test are prescribing fewer antibiotics
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£1.25m Brahmal Vasudevan aerial robotics lab will allow development and testing of next-generation flying robots. By Samuel Gibbs
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Company behind Antares vehicle that blew up on way to space station says Soviet-era AJ26 motors likely to be shelved
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Wellcome Collection’s exhibition on the history of forensics includes slides from Crippen case and a stabbed liver
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Rodent-like Vintana sertichi lived over 66 million years ago alongside dinosaurs on the supercontinent Gondwana
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Nicola Davis: An alimentary voyage packed full of fun factoids shines a light on the fate of food inside us
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Tim Radford looks at Pedro Ferreira’s magical tour through the history of scientific ideas
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James Kingsland: From chocolate to Samurai swords, a fascinating take on the sensory and social dimension of materials
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In the first in a series on nominees for the 2014 Royal Society Winton prize for science books Tim Radford reviews Philip Ball on the moral dilemmas of physicists who stayed in Germany under Hitler
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Letters: Demonstrating how the building blocks of life came together to form a primitive cell capable of self-sustaining metabolism and replication is more likely to be achieved by scientists in labs on earth
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Observer Tech Monthly is offering two pairs of tickets for after-dark entry to the Bristol museum
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Intervening in climate change currently raises more questions than answers when it comes to manipulating the atmosphere, writes Nicola Davis
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Evidence suggest 250-million-year-old marine reptile had terrestrial ancestors, scientists say
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Company reveals 3% of customers have cancelled as investigators release analysis of pilots’ actions prior to crash
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Letters: Earth no longer has what Rosa Luxemburg called an ‘outside’ – a non-capitalist realm in which new investments can be profitably made. But Branson and other investors such as Elon Musk have an answer to this problem
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Italian physicist won worldwide attention in 2012 for her leading role in Cern’s discovery of Higgs boson particle
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Jon Butterworth: At its 173rd closed session, Cern council selects the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the organisation’s next director general
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Athene Donald: A recent study claims that low numbers of women in senior academic science are due to choices made in childhood by girls, not anything to do with the environment at work. Can this be true?
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Alex Bellos: Postage goes meta as new Chinese stamps celebrate an ancient number pattern by themselves appearing in a pattern
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Descent system was unlocked two seconds before SpaceShipTwo disintegrated, but what happened next is unclear
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Jon Butterworth: At its 173rd closed session, Cern council selects the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the organisation’s next director general
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Athene Donald: A recent study claims that low numbers of women in senior academic science are due to choices made in childhood by girls, not anything to do with the environment at work. Can this be true?
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Alex Bellos: Postage goes meta as new Chinese stamps celebrate an ancient number pattern by themselves appearing in a pattern
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GrrlScientist: This interesting video shares some of the calls made by a few owl species, including the calls made by one of the world’s most widespread bird species, the barn owl.
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Posts on our network this week included the science of cashing in on halloween, the discovery of a new frog species in New York, and why we need to banish the idea of the scientist as a crazy genius
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Sylvia McLain: People who suffer from mental health issues also suffer from its stigma. Portraying mental illness as a good thing helps no one
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GrrlScientist: An elderly man takes pleasure in the small things, by sharing his kitchen with a hungry hummingbird in Brasil
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GrrlScientist: Here’s a few more books to help you become that modern polymath you want to become.
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Blogs on our network this week included a tribute to famed puzzler and mathematician Martin Gardner, a primer on quantum tunneling, and a look at the super world of super-resolution microscopy
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Steve Caplan: If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a super-resolution image may be worth a thousand gigabytes – and it’s changing the course of biomedical research
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Alex Bellos: The maestro of recreational maths was born 100 years ago today. Here we celebrate his birthday with eight of his most celebrated puzzles
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Rebekah Higgitt: Today’s Google Doodle marks the birthday of Christopher Wren, the architect, but we should also remember him as an astronomer and founding figure for the Royal Society and Royal Observatory
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GrrlScientist: This short video, by the Cornell Lab of O, discusses the differences between and potential meanings of the sounds made by crows and ravens.
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GrrlScientist: After my bookgasm (book-buying binge) at last week’s Frankfurt Book Fair, I’ve got a mountain of wonderful books to share with you -- a project that will take place over the next few weeks.
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Signal Boost: science blogs roundup Consensus, chemical signals and colouring by letters - blogs roundup
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Pete Etchells: A study published this week brilliantly debunks myths about the brain that pervade the education system
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Intervening in climate change currently raises more questions than answers when it comes to manipulating the atmosphere, writes Nicola Davis
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Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker explores the hidden numbers and patterns that keep our data safe and make our gadgets work
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Ryan Harris had been searching for the wreck of the lost ship of John Franklin for six years. Now, having finally located it, he tells Robin McKie what the find may reveal about the doomed expedition to discover the North West Passage
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The £1bn European spacecraft will seek answers to questions such as the origins of life on Earth. But anxious scientists know the mission faces perils in its final manoeuvres
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Our monthly roundup of best space-related imagery in the known universe includes the second largest spiral galaxy found by Hubble Space Telescope, the North America Nebula and a snap of the cosmos filled with millions of galaxies
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Children at schools in Texas, New Jersey and Michigan had worked for a year to develop projects for the International Space Station
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Alan Pickup on the stars, planets and meteors to look out for during the coming month
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Biologists have long been wary of applying quantum theory to their own field. But, as Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden reveal, it might explain much natural phenomena
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Paul Simons Craze for foraging may endanger our mushrooms
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Tractor beams, hoverboards and invisibility cloaks were once just futuristic impossibilities. Not any more
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His uncompromising research into alternative medicine won him friends – and enemies – in high places, writes Nicola Davis
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Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology reckon settlers on Mars would all be dead within a few months
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Top 10 science and tech books for October: from Brian Cox and wacky Mother Nature to space and pizza
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Alan Pickup on the most distant object most of us can see with the unaided eye
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Science fiction fantasies such as Total Recall, Blade Runner and Eternal Sunshine could become reality
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Dr Nicola Logan looks at some popular misconceptions about eyesight
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Understanding how ‘colour catchers’ can stop your whites going pink in the wash, why gravity is actually part of space-time and how you can have a nice cup of tea and a sit down without worrying about the caffeine
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From cycle helmets to self-cleaning paint, explore the inventions that have plagiarised the natural world
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James Kingsland: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was given a rapturous reception by mindfulness researchers, but tactfully avoided the controversial question of applications in the military
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Blogs on our network this week included a tribute to famed puzzler and mathematician Martin Gardner, a primer on quantum tunneling, and a look at the super world of super-resolution microscopy
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In 1967, The Beatles and a BBC executive called Aubrey Singer managed to unite the world, albeit briefly, with the first global satellite broadcast
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Evolutionary biologist has called for a massive posthumous space-brag, giving future lifeforms the chance to understand us
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In the 1950s, an amazing piece of kit carried the voice of the singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson loud and clear across the Atlantic to London
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It wasn’t IBM that pioneered the first business computer, but the British teashop chain Lyons. This is the third in our series on the major inventions that shaped the information age
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London’s Science Museum opens its largest ever gallery on Saturday. To celebrate the launch of Information Age, this week we unveil five of the greatest inventions in the history of communication
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Saskia Vermeylen: As states are not allowed to claim sovereign rights in outer space, land ownership on the moon and planets will in all likelihood be outlawed
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Posts on our network this week included analysis of the state of UK science, a primer on social anxiety, and a look at the statistical adventures of Jean Golding
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David Cox: Exposure therapy has proved a highly successful treatment for phobias, but it’s impractical for things such as fear of public speaking or flying. The answer may be virtual reality
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Dr Nick Peel: Researchers have identified a chemical that melanoma cells follow when they spread around the body – raising the prospect of eventually switching it off
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Michelle Thew: The rules may be followed, but undercover investigations by the BUAV expose the reality of life for lab animals
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Henry Gee: Humans do not stand at the top of a ladder of creation, above the apes and below the angels, superior to all other species
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Naomi Elster: Cancer’s ability to evolve drug resistance makes it impossible to eradicate, but we may one day transform it from a killer into a long-term illness
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Russell Grossman: The art of science communication is to pitch something as complicated as quantum mechanics in a way that is not only engaging but also faithful to the evidence
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Posts on our network included a first for the Hollywood box office, a series about the history and future of chemotherapy, and the discovery of a completely new type of fundamental particle
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Targeted cancer therapies are like heat-seeking missiles programmed to find and attack cancer but leave healthy cells alone
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Sir Richard Branson hits out at 'self-proclaimed' experts who asserted that an explosion brought down the Virgin Galactic space-plane last week
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US investigators say that a function designed to help Virgin Galactic's crashed space plane descend was deployed early during the accident
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US transport officials say report of what caused SpaceShipTwo crash in California desert may not be published for up to a year
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One of two pilots on board the experimental Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo craft was killed when it crashed during a test flight in the Mojave Desert of California
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A private unmanned craft carrying supplies for the International Space Station explodes on launch after a ‘catastrophic’ equipment failure
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A rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station has gone down in a spectacular explosion in the US state of Virginia
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The commercial cargo ship, SpaceX Dragon, concludes its fifth mission to the International Space Station and is headed back to Earth
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Google's vice president Alan Eustace sky dives from the edge of space, breaking the world altitude record previously set by Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner
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Rose Young tells Guardian science editor Ian Sample about her work as a telephone exchange operator during the 1950s
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A man paralysed from the chest down has managed to walk again following pioneering cell transplant surgery
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A US air force plane, resembling a small space shuttle, has landed after a secret mission that lasted 674 days
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Scientists have discovered the remains of a new species of dinosaur after a 20-year investigation in western Venezuela
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Nasa animation shows the flight path of a comet that will pass within close proximity of Mars on 19 October
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An international team of divers find new artefacts while excavating an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera
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Jon Butterworth: Some vaguely physics-related snaps from the past few weeks
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On Wednesday night skywatchers were treated to the unusual sight of a ‘blood moon’. Here are some of the best shots
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The rare opportunity to see a lunar eclipse presents itself on Wednesday, over China
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Three physicists from Japan and the US are announced as Nobel prize winners for their invention of the blue LED light
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Anglo-American John O'Keefe shares the award with Norwegian couple May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser
Venomous spider found in Waitrose shopping 'beautiful but aggressive'