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ľ«¶«´«Ă˝ of the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, December 15, 2025. Anatoly Doroshenko

Physics

The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor

Ever since the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists have needed to monitor radioactive conditions inside. That job currently falls to Anatoly Doroshenko, who explains the dangers and importance of his work to New ľ«¶«´«Ă˝

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Head of the Chernobyl Meteorological Station Lyudmila Dyblenko in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, December 16, 2025.

Society

My life as a meteorologist in Chernobyl under Russian occupation

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Chernobyl 2022

Physics

Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster

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Professor Sir John Pendry FRS, Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College London, who has made seminal contributions to research in metamaterials and photonics, surface science, and disordered systems and localisation. Cloaking devices, perfect lenses and the super high-speed computer chips of the future are just some of the practical applications of Sir John's theoretical research.

Physics

The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve

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I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?

Mind

I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?

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Cracked blue bowl with equations, stars, planets and galaxies decorating its exterior. It is cracked but golden glue sticks it back together.

Physics

We're solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together

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Estuaries near the coast of Guinea?Bissau branch out like a network of roots from a plant. With their long tendrils, the rivers meander through the country?s lowland plains to join the Atlantic Ocean. On the way, they carry water, nutrients, but also sediments out from the land. This natural?color image captures the movement of the sediments as the rivers move east to west. The image was acquired on May 17, 2018, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. The discoloration is most apparent in Rio Geba, which runs past the country?s capital city of Bissau. https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/the-meandering-estuaries-of-guineabissau-92266/

Environment

Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s going on?

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A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries

Physics

A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries

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The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health

Health

The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health

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Astronaut running during sunset at a remote planet

Health

How working out like an astronaut can reduce back pain and slow ageing

The same principles that help astronauts stay strong in microgravity can help us all resist the slow collapse of ageing – and it’s not all about hitting the gym more

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Life

The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn't the king of the dinosaurs

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Mind

The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness

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Mind

This neuroscientist says some psychopaths wish they were nicer

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Technology

A very serious guide to buying your own humanoid robot butler

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