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Occam’s razor: The medieval monk who saw the power of simplicity
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How climate change is shaking up the hops that give beer its flavour
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What doing magic tricks for birds is revealing about animal minds
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The secret life of cheese: How marvellous microbes create its flavour
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Kenneth Libbrecht interview: A grand unified theory of snowflakes
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Ambergris: What fragrant whale excretions tell us about ancient oceans
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Space
Milky Way shakes: The cosmic collisions that made our galaxy
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Did monkeys really sail the oceans on floating rafts of vegetation?
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The Amazon is turning into savannah – we have 5 years to save it
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Steven Pinker interview: Why humans aren't as irrational as they seem
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