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Health

The epidemic on the way: Why winter flu is so bad this year

Flu is an underestimated killer, taking more than a million lives around the globe annually. This time, the mutated virus seems to be hitting even harder

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Health

Jab in the dark: Why we don’t have a universal flu vaccine

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Health

Waiting for the big one: A new flu pandemic is a matter of time

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Health

Stopping the spread: What you can do to prevent flu

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Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding

Physics

Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding

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Humans

Quiz: Do you know your Piddle from your Pishill?

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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ 2017 holiday quiz - Answers

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Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

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Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ 2017 holiday quiz

Fingers on buzzers! University Challenge stars Monkman and Seagull are here to test your scientific smarts, from narwhals to supercomputers    

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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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