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Life

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

Christmas in many parts of the world isn’t complete without holly sprigs, but logging the trees’ genetic diversity is a distinctly prickly business

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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

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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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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How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke

Heard the one about the British scientist? Tales of idiotic research from the UK are common currency in Russia – a harmless stereotype, or something more sinister?

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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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Physics

Consciously quantum: How you make everything real

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