Thomas Pesquet has returned to Earth after 196 days on the ISS – and took some amazing photographs
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Mirza Naim Beg, the Pakistani banker turned wildlife photographer
Pakistani, Mirza Naim Beg, retired from his banking job to follow his passion for wildlife photography
Childhood family environment linked with relationship quality 60 years later
A Harvard Medical School study has found that warm family environments in men’s childhood lead to more secure romantic relationships in later life
Face transplant: Dr Samir Mardini rebuilds a man’s face – and his life
Dr Samir Mardini conducts the first face transplant at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota
Dogs judge humans by how they treat others
A 2017 study shows that dogs prefer humans who help their owners
105-year-old French cyclist Robert Marchand breaks world record
Is it Robert Marchand’s lifestyle, diet, or physiology that makes him a world record cyclist – or no-one else is in his category!
A rising tide lifts all boats: a rising living standard lifts everyone’s health
A higher socio-economic status may boost immunity from disease – so raising everyone’s standard of living is a win-win for all
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson: the man who defined the mathematical beauty of nature
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson was a man ahead of his time – a zoologist, the man who defined mathematical beauty in nature, and a conservationist
Spanish rebel Santiago Ramon y Cajal, a master of anatomical drawings
Spanish Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the father of neuroscience, loved to draw
Moonwalker, Eugene Cernan, dies aged 82
The 12th – and last – man to walk on the moon during the 1969-1972 American space mission – has died aged 82
Singapore’s Philip Yeo – Neither Civil Nor Servant
Philip Yeo, of Singapore, is an unconventional public servant with 50 years in public administration
102-year-old scientist keeps working on ecology research
Dr David Goodall is 102 and has just won the right to keep working at an Australian university