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Life

Monarch butterflies' beautiful wing scales enable their epic migration

This extreme close-up of a butterfly wing, made by stitching together 2100 exposures, shows the tiny scales that allow monarchs to fly thousands of kilometres

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Life

Long-eared jerboas have some of the most outsized ears on the planet

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Artificial sun made with movie magic could create clean hydrogen

Technology

Artificial sun made with movie magic could create clean hydrogen

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The ultimate kitchen: the Danish food lab designing our future meals

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Earth

How the stunning Earthrise became the world’s most famous photograph

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Earth

Dan Holdsworth captures a vanishing landscape in a point-cloud

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Life

3000-year-old woman's mummy found in tomb from the time of Tutankhamun

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Life

Giant baby birds sitting on their potty-like nests make a fine sight

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Life

Amber time capsules: see an ancient insect in ultra-high resolution

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Physics

Inside the hunt for the universe's missing ingredient – dark matter

Dark matter fills much of the universe, but we don't know what it is. A new detector hopes finding a theoretical particle called an axion will shed some light

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Life

Thousands of flamingos dine on colourful bacteria in this rainbow lake

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Space

What it's like to be sucked into a black hole – without dying

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Life

A rare white 'spirit bear' eats a leisurely meal in the rainforest

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Environment

Still waters: The world's most extraordinary freshwater environments

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