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Life

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

Christmas in many parts of the world isn’t complete without holly sprigs, but logging the trees’ genetic diversity is a distinctly prickly business

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whale artwork

Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

Features

chocolate Santas

Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

Features

bird in nest

Life

Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat

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book pages

Humans

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

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sloth

Life

Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane

Features

Why brewing beer in space is more important than you think

Humans

Why brewing beer in space is more important than you think

Comment

Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

Physics

Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

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Why the internet's CiCo calorie count diet won't keep weight off

Health

Why the internet's CiCo calorie count diet won't keep weight off

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Solitary tomato in fridge

Earth

Tasty tomatoes could be sacrificed in drive to cut food waste

People are up in arms over new UK food labelling guidelines that advise storing tomatoes in the fridge. Does flavour have to lose out to reduce spoilage?

Analysis

Humans

Why a female fly will ruin your drink, but a male is fine

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Earth

If we only ate organic it would be an environmental disaster

Analysis

Physics

A 'magic number' of people walking across a bridge makes it sway

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Technology

Grow fake versions of rare delicacies like sea urchin at home

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