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Environment

Peatlands in peril: The race to save the bogs that slow climate change

The world's peatlands hold twice as much carbon as all its forests, but exploitation has destroyed a fifth of them. Now scientists are using pioneering moss transplants and flooding to restore their natural function

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How shifting your expectations about food can help you lose weight

Health

How shifting your expectations about food can help you lose weight

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The secret life of cheese: How marvellous microbes create its flavour

Life

The secret life of cheese: How marvellous microbes create its flavour

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Six pointed snowflake

Humans

Kenneth Libbrecht interview: A grand unified theory of snowflakes

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MN6GWA iridescence on the surface of some soap bubbles illuminated from below

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How the shimmering secrets of iridescence could keep us cool

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What doing magic tricks for birds is revealing about animal minds

Mind

What doing magic tricks for birds is revealing about animal minds

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Two senior woman in launderettes, laughing, portrait

Humans

The real reasons we laugh and what different types of laughter mean

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Occam’s razor: The medieval monk who saw the power of simplicity

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Occam’s razor: The medieval monk who saw the power of simplicity

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S0J9ED Cascade hops fresh off of the vine.

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How climate change is shaking up the hops that give beer its flavour

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This composite image of X-rays from Chandra (colored light blue) and optical data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (yellow, red, white, and blue) shows a beautiful new look at the compact group of galaxies known as Stephan???s Quintet. One galaxy is thought to be passing through the others at almost two million miles per hour. This generates a shock wave that heats the gas and creates the ridge of X-ray emission detected by Chandra.

Space

Milky Way shakes: The cosmic collisions that made our galaxy

Intricate patterns in the movements of millions of stars are revealing the history of our home galaxy in rich detail – and could even pinpoint the events that gave birth to our sun

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Life

When geckos play ball and spiders spar: The strange evolution of fun

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Humans

Strange but true? Test yourself in our barely believable science quiz

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Humans

Ambergris: What fragrant whale excretions tell us about ancient oceans

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Life

Did monkeys really sail the oceans on floating rafts of vegetation?

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