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29/11/2021 - 20:51
In the late 1960s, Nasa faced a decision that could have shaped the fate of our species. Following the Apollo 11 Moon landings, the three...
23/11/2021 - 13:21
These ancient communities, whose roots in the Middle East predated by a millennium the advent of Islam, numbered close to one million...
14/11/2021 - 14:03
Their purpose was to defend Christian holy sites and to protect and guide pilgrims in the Middle East. Headquartered in Jerusalem, they...
04/11/2021 - 17:47
The team excavated them from the buried rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto, where German occupiers sealed hundreds of thousands of Poland's Jews...
30/10/2021 - 14:06
Behind it lies the motor cortex, responsible for planning and coordinating movement. To the sides: the temporal lobes, crucial for memory...
25/10/2021 - 13:54
“Dealing with Holocaust education is akin to dealing with oncology, in that you have to set aside your personal feelings,” he says. “You...
19/10/2021 - 14:25
The first cadre of Soviet space explorers gathered together numbered 20. Among them were Gherman Titov, still the youngest person to fly in...
09/10/2021 - 14:36
The exchange has stuck with me. The unspoken supposition here is that if a world-renowned scholar such as Harari is not ruffling the...
03/10/2021 - 12:27
Every few years since 1990, we have evaluated our progress through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) scientific...
25/09/2021 - 13:16
In the same period, temperatures of 45C and above occurred on average an extra two weeks a year. "The increase can be 100% attributed to...
20/09/2021 - 13:12
Speaking on his approach to growing his fans, he says that, if a picture doesn’t receive a certain number of ‘Likes’ within a set time, it...
15/09/2021 - 16:25
Conspiracy theories have long been part of American life, but they feel more urgent than ever. Innocuous notions like whether the moon...

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