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Environment

Green Christmas: How to have an ethical and guilt-free festive season

If you celebrate Christmas, it doesn't have to be a feast of rampant consumerism and devastating gluttony. Read our guide to cleaning up your Yule

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Michel Chasles

Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

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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

Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat

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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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Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

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Life

Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine

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Humans

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

From artificial spiders to melting lead teaspoons, The Young Man’s Book of Amusement was a science primer of the weird, wacky and downright dangerous

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Life

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

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Humans

How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke

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Earth

England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

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Technology

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

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