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Black hole

Space

Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes

The black hole firewall paradox has been vexing physicists for years. But if quantum laws lead to the creation of other universes, the headache disappears

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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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Michel Chasles

Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

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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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Starry Night painting

Technology

New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour

Natural blue pigments to colour paints, inks and plastics are so hard to find that people will go to the depths of Earth to discover new ones

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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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