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An aerial photo taken in January 2020 shows excavators at the construction site of a new hospital being built to treat people with covid-19 in Wuhan, China

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The most iconic images taken during the covid-19 pandemic

Many emotive and inspiring photographs were taken when covid-19 turned our lives upside down – here are some of the best pictures from the past five years

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2NR8F5N Two workers try to get boxes of vegetables over the barriers in the empty road outside the Union Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. The city badly-hit by the COVID-19 escalated its ban on vehicles in the outbreak. (FeatureChina via AP Images)

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We must revisit the covid-19 pandemic to prepare for future outbreaks

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The big unanswered questions about the covid-19 coronavirus

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How the covid-19 pandemic distorted our experience of time

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How the covid-19 pandemic distorted our experience of time

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Visualising a virus: How our covers captured an unfolding crisis

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Visualising a virus: How our covers captured an unfolding crisis

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Five years on, have we learned the lessons of covid-19?

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Five years on, have we learned the lessons of covid-19?

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Is this the world’s toughest word search? We dare you to try it

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Is this the world’s toughest word search? We dare you to try it

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The bizarre story of a rodent utopia that predicted doom for humanity

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The bizarre story of a rodent utopia that predicted doom for humanity

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The scientists on a mission to catch farts for the good of our health

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The scientists on a mission to catch farts for the good of our health

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The wild physics that could actually be used to build a time machine

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The wild physics that could actually be used to build a time machine

From warp drives to quantum tricks, here are five ways that physicists have figured out how to theoretically travel back in time

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From enshittocene to virome, science and technology's words of 2024

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The surprising maths that explains why coincidences are so common

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How a plan to make the world's largest snowflake was humbled by nature

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Chemistry

The scientific secrets to baking the perfect holiday gingerbread

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