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Holiday brain-off round 1: Challenge your original thinking

Kick off our multi-generational game by testing your ability to think outside the box. Balance points for originality against points for practicality

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Hangovers: What science says about why you feel so rough

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Life

Reindeer riddle: How do you tell caribou apart?

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Technology

Don’t believe the Skype: We never wanted to video call people

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Humans

Holiday brain-off round 4: Demonstrate the wisdom of the ages

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Life

Tree of life: How figs built the world and will help save it

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Technology

Medieval wax seals are giving up fresh historical secrets

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Physics

The fragile state of scientific glassblowing

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Earth

Animal magnetism: Why dogs do their business pointing north

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Technology

Fold your own universe with our cosmic origami decoration

The Miura fold is used in fields ranging from space flight to surgery, but it also makes an amazing decoration you can build at home – download the template here

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Technology

Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering

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Life

Quantum solar cells could explain why plants are green

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Humans

Ancient leftovers show the real Paleo diet was a veggie feast

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Physics

Physics may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality

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