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Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

It’s not just a yucky bodily secretion – unique chemical signatures in ear wax contain clues to everything from drug misuse to festive overindulgence

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Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

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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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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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Earth

England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

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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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Space

We've just found a nearby exoplanet that could be right for life

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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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