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Meet the mafias making buckets of cash from illegal sand

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Meet the mafias making buckets of cash from illegal sand

Unregulated sand mining is a problem in at least 70 countries. It’s an easy, lucrative venture - and one with a violent underbelly

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Life

Dirty talk: How pollution is snuffing out plants' scent messages

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Quantum time machine: How the future can change what happens now

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Quantum time machine: How the future can change what happens now

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Long-lost relatives: An amazing poster of the sun’s family tree

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Long-lost relatives: An amazing poster of the sun’s family tree

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Technology

5 moments that made Big Tech big

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Suns and daughters: The family tree that may unite all the stars

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Earth

The survivors: Is climate change really killing polar bears?

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Health

The doctor who exposed the UK's terrible experiments on patients

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Technology

How Google and Facebook hooked us – and how to break the habit

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Humans

Primate archaeology: Digging up secrets of the monkey Stone Age

The discovery that chimps and some monkeys have a long history of making tools is forcing us to rethink our own cultural evolution

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Health

The unpalatable truth about your favourite foods

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Health

The love drug that could draw people away from any addiction

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Space

7 things we thought were made by aliens, but weren't... probably

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Space

Interstellar: The bizarre visitor from a far-off solar system

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