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

Natural blue pigments to colour paints, inks and plastics are so hard to find that people will go to the depths of Earth to discover new ones

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quantum computing

Technology

2018 preview: Quantum computers to overtake ordinary machines

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Michel Chasles

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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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

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

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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

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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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

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Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

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