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chocolate Santas

Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

Pests and disease threaten our supply of cocoa beans, but in a field outside London biologists are working to prevent a chocolate meltdown. We paid a visit

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Starry Night painting

Technology

New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour

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quantum computing

Technology

2018 preview: Quantum computers to overtake ordinary machines

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Michel Chasles

Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

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Nocturnal sun artwork

Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

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holly wreath

Life

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

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bird in nest

Life

Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat

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book pages

Humans

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

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sloth

Life

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

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Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

Physics

Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

Be careful when nuking your breakfast. A hard-boiled egg reheated in the microwave can explode with a rush of steam and a sound as loud as a chainsaw

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Physics

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

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Physics

Consciously quantum: How you make everything real

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Technology

We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

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Physics

Why Hawking's PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration

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