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Humans

We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home

From artificial spiders to melting lead teaspoons, The Young Man’s Book of Amusement was a science primer of the weird, wacky and downright dangerous

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Life

Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane

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Space

2018 preview: Return to the moon as eight missions are planned

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Michel Chasles

Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

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Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

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Life

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

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Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

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chocolate Santas

Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

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Humans

Calendar synaesthesia: The people who can see time

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Earth

’Sno substitute: The ecological cost of fake flakes on the piste

As temperatures rise, resorts are turning to artificial snow to make the champagne powder ski nuts desire. But that could be making climate change worse

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Life

Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine

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Humans

How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke

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Earth

England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

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Physics

Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world

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