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    Eddington's eclipse and Einstein's celebrity

    Philip Ball tells the story of Arthur Eddington's confirmation of general relativity

  5. Earthrise

    The story of one of the most iconic photos of the last 50 years

  6. The Supercalculators

    Alex Bellos meets the supercalculators taking part in the Mental Calculation World Cup.

  9. Tracking the First Animals on Earth

    In search of the first animals on the Earth, more than half a billion years ago

  10. Cooling the City

    How can we adapt and prepare our cities for extreme weather conditions?

  18. What鈥檚 the Tiniest Dinosaur?

    And how do bats differentiate their own echolocation signals?

  19. Can Anything Travel Faster Than Light?

    Plus, how can we measure the age of the Universe?

  20. Why Do We Dream?

    And are machines better than humans when it comes to recognising faces?

  21. Can We Use Chemistry to Bake the Perfect Cake?

    And what makes something sharp?

  22. Why Do Some Songs Get Stuck in Your Head?

    And why do I get so many static shocks?

  24. Bringing Schrodinger's Cat to Life

    Roland Pease meets the quantum scientists hoping to bring Schrodinger's cat to life

  26. The Far Future

    What fragments of our civilisation will persist 10,000 years in the future?

  27. Why We Cut Men

    Across the world, 1 in 3 men are circumcised. Mary-Ann Ochota investigates why we cut men

  28. The Power of Sloth

    Lucy Cooke discovers the joy of sloth and sloths and the benefits of being really slow.

  30. The Day the Earth Moved

    How scientists learned the earth鈥檚 crust is made up of shifting plates.

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