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Behind the Tourist Spots in Brussels
The Grand-Place takes nine minutes to photograph. What the coach tours skip, a Congolese high street, a working lambic brewery, a flea market that…
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The Solar Flare of 1859, and What It Would Mean Today
In 1859 a geomagnetic storm set telegraph paper alight and let operators send messages with the batteries disconnected. The modern equivalent would be a…
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Them Short Shorts in Planetary Orbit
Ninety metres of chilled tubing, a laundry bill measured in kilograms per year, and spines that grow three centimetres: the strange engineering behind what…
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Goal Line Technology Could be Introduced to College Sports
Optical tracking, chipped balls and magnetic goal lines are already routine in professional sport. The question in college athletics is not whether they work,…
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Travelling Around the World in Less Than 80 Days
No aircraft, three oceans, one bad stick-and-poke per crossing. Nadia Ferreiro reached home in Vigo on day 76 and says the hard part was…
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Unsplash: This Week’s Hottest Exploration Cities
Drone permits tightened, so photographers started climbing instead. Why this week’s trending list is dominated by cities built on slopes, and who is shooting…
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We Suspect The Unsuspected Treks
The best meteor watching happens on trails nobody recommends. Notes from a winter of chasing dark sky on foot, and why the Quadrantids reward…
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Hot on Steam: Exploration and Creativity on Grand Scale
Four of the top ten sellers this month are games with no fail state at all. A look at why the autumn charts quietly…
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Driving the Curiosity Engine Towards Space Exploration
Rovers spend most of their lives waiting for instructions from a planet eleven light-minutes away. A new class of onboard software decides for itself…
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