Matt Ransford

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  Pandemic!

  10 of the world's deadliest diseases—and why they might wipe us out yet

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  ET Phone Earth

  Here's how scientists are bracing themselves for the moment aliens make contact; and what form it might take

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  The World's Spookiest Weapons

  Cyborg animals, psychotropics and flying lasers are just some of the terrifying weapons government labs have cooked up over the years