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Humans

Calendar synaesthesia: The people who can see time

For some the year is a C stretching out in front of them, for others it’s a hula hoop. The ways some people visualise calendars could shed light on memory itself

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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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Research funding cartoon

Humans

How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke

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floods

Earth

England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

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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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Why brewing beer in space is more important than you think

Humans

Why brewing beer in space is more important than you think

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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

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Why the internet's CiCo calorie count diet won't keep weight off

Health

Why the internet's CiCo calorie count diet won't keep weight off

An old dietary fad has got a fresh lease of life: Calories in-Calories out, or CiCo to its new devotees. It still doesn't add up, says Anthony Warner

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Earth

Tasty tomatoes could be sacrificed in drive to cut food waste

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Humans

Why a female fly will ruin your drink, but a male is fine

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Earth

If we only ate organic it would be an environmental disaster

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Physics

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

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