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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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Technology

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

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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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Nocturnal sun artwork

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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whale artwork

Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

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chocolate Santas

Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

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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

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

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

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Physics

Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world

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Physics

Superheated water makes microwaved eggs explode when you dig in

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Technology

Best-yet quantum simulator with 53 qubits could really be useful

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