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Head to head, Winner, Behaviour Mammals category: Two Svalbard reindeer battle for control of a harem in Norway's arctic. Winners of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021

Life

How reindeer eyes change colour in winter to help them see in the dark

It turns out reindeers' amazing night vision is thanks to a strange 'mirror' in their eyes called the tapetum lucidum that is extra sensitive to UV light

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Physics

How to beat your family at board games with quantum tricks

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H60RX2 Deck and Turret of U.S.S. Monitor seen from Bow, James River, Virginia, by James F. Gibson, July 1862

Environment

How a US civil war shipwreck became a template for marine conservation

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Space

What our attempts to communicate with alien civilisations say about us

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Environment

The surprising origin of sprouts, the vegetable we either love or hate

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Mind

Why self-compassion is the first step to being kinder to others

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Life

Some individual animals are really lazy. How do they get away with it?

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Physics

The strange physics of absolute zero and what it takes to get there

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Earth

How well do you know your animal poo? Find out with this picture quiz

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A man replaces a magnetic tape data storage drive in an early model office computer, mid 1970s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Technology

Magnetic tape: The surprisingly retro way big tech stores your data

From family photos to particle physics data, we generate stupendous amounts of digital information - and much of it is stored on old-fashioned plastic cartridges

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Humans

Self-knowledge: How to know your true personality and why it matters

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Space

What the world鈥檚 largest liquid mirror telescope means for astronomy

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Earth

How did so many giant meat-eating dinosaurs co-exist in the Jurassic?

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Physics

The exotic quantum effects found hiding inside ultra-thin materials

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