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Environment

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

Christmas in many parts of the world isn鈥檛 complete without holly sprigs, but logging the trees鈥� genetic diversity is a distinctly prickly business

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Humans

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

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Environment

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

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Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

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Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

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Environment

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

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Environment

Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat

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Earth

鈥橲no substitute: The ecological cost of fake flakes on the piste

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Humans

Calendar synaesthesia: The people who can see time

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Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

Patriotic fervour gripped Paris with proof that Isaac Newton had stolen his theory of gravity from a Frenchman 鈥� but the details looked distinctly fishy

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Humans

Hoax or not? Three ancient texts with controversial origins

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Humans

Effortless thinking: Thoughtlessly thoughtless

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Space

Planet X: We are closing in on the solar system’s new occupant

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