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England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

Anglo-Saxon England was unusually warm and stormy. Place names coined then could hold clues to how the weather will get wetter and wilder as the climate changes

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Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

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Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

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Life

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

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Technology

The epic robot fails that say AI will never rule the world

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Technology

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

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Life

Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat

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Humans

We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home

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Life

Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane

Once defamed as slow and stupid, sloths are now recognised as masterworks of evolution – and we could all learn from their energy-saving tricks

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Humans

Hoax or not? Three ancient texts with controversial origins

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Humans

Effortless thinking: Thoughtlessly thoughtless

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Space

Planet X: We are closing in on the solar system's new occupant

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Humans

How World War Zero wrecked three Bronze Age civilisations

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