From Byron to Brookner, writers have found refuge in the chocolate-box scenery of Switzerland.
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Europe’s ExoMars missions are go – finally
Ten years after being formally approved, Europe’s ExoMars project is at last ready to send some hardware – a satellite – to the Red Planet.
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Gravity will rip Martian moon apart to form dust and rubble ring
Mars will become the fifth ringed planet as the largest of its two moons disintegrate – in 20 to 70 million years, according to new data
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Bookshops launch Civilised Saturday as antidote to Black Friday
With promotions including butlers serving prosecco and free hand massages, booksellers plan to draw shoppers away from the scramble for bargains
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The abandoned buildings of the Eastern bloc
Christian Richter spent his teens exploring abandoned buildings in what was then East Germany. Now, as an adult, he’s still doing it and photographing their decaying interiors.
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Ghostly 16th-century portrait of Byron’s ancestor rediscovered
Painting of bearded man thought to have haunted poet’s family home of Newstead Abbey found by art sleuth after 160 years of being lost.
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Undelivered letters shed light on 17th-century society
Thousands of pieces of correspondence, many still unopened, were stored away by Dutch postmaster and are now being examined by academics.
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Beyond the pall… how London fog seeped into fiction
No representation of Sherlock Holmes or Jack the Ripper would be complete without fog. Switch on the fog machine and light a dim gas lamp in the street and you have immediately told viewers what to expect.
But for many writers London fog was much more than a simple scene-setting device.
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An unlikely spot for 180 bookstores
Tired of an unsatisfying telecomm career, this Tokyo resident stumbled on a simple idea that would turn his passion for books into a new lease on life.
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On Ada Lovelace Day, here are seven other pioneering women in tech
Celebrating the Victorian thought to be the first computer programmer, a look at other female innovators – from gamers to coders to Hollywood stars.
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