Earth
The exquisite marble that sculptor Michelangelo couldn’t use
Workers at the Cervaiole quarry have supplied marble to Auguste Rodin and Henry Moore. But the beautiful rock was discovered 500 years ago by Michelangelo
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Environment
Put your best foot forward to help animal conservation
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Feedback: Kenya’s chief censor has claws out for gay pride
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Rising damp
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Absolute hotness
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Environment
Gang of ants surgically dismembers large, dead spider on Borneo
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Feedback: Want to improve your Dutch? Head to the pub
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Survival of the fittest
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Rising damp
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Thorny problem
I am puzzled by brambles, raspberries and blackberries. They have sweet, juicy fruit, presumably so they will be eaten by animals who will spread their seeds. But they also have prickles. What's the good of that?
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Physics
Peek inside a gilded cage of liquid argon made to spot neutrinos
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Earth
Old Scientist: Why aren鈥檛 there more British Nobels?
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Feedback: A quacking idea to use ducks as research assistants
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Spin a yarn
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