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Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

Before artificial lights blinded our sight, reports of nights as bright as day were common. What lay behind the phenomenon was a mystery – until now

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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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Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

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Life

Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat

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Humans

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

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Life

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

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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

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Life

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

France’s vineyards were ravaged by a mystery invader in the 19th century – leading to enforced sobriety and some unforeseen consequences for society

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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

Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

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Physics

A 'magic number' of people walking across a bridge makes it sway

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