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Dramatic pictures of the storm damage from Florence and Mangkhut

19 September 2018

Extreme storms Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut have caused destruction and taken lives across the globe this week, forcing millions to evacuate their homes


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Meet Bob the tame flamingo who has become a local superstar

1 August 2018

Bob became a celebrity on the Caribbean island of Curaçao after injuring himself by flying into a window of the island's Hilton Hotel


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Swirling wall of moving patterns represents our thoughts

2 May 2018

It looks like a mountain range in a box, but it's really a frame from an undulating digital artwork, based on algorithms that convert brain waves into imagery


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Backyard critters get celeb treatment with glam photo shoots

27 September 2017

The Meet Your Neighbours project aims to spark interest in otherwise overlooked bugs, birds and bees


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Stunning shots capture how we interact with our natural world

13 September 2017

These evocative pictures by photographer Lucas Foglia catalogue his quest to capture our turbulent relationship with nature


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Bioluminescent termite mounds lure insects to their death

12 July 2017

Firefly larvae colonise abandoned termite mounds in Brazil and glow green at night to lure prey


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Inside the SPIDER facility, preparing for nuclear fusion tests

31 May 2017

Due for completion next year, the SPIDER facility in Italy will fine-tune the heating source for ITER, the world's first experimental fusion reactor


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