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Michel Chasles

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 – but the details looked distinctly fishy

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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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whale artwork

Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

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chocolate Santas

Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

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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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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

The quantum computing era is upon us. Google is building up to a breakthrough on par with the launch of Sputnik or the splitting of the atom

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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

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Humans

How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke

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