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The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

It’s not just a yucky bodily secretion – unique chemical signatures in ear wax contain clues to everything from drug misuse to festive overindulgence

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Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

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Technology

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

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Technology

2018 preview: Quantum computers to overtake ordinary machines

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Space

2018 preview: Epic mission to Mercury will unravel its mysteries

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Space

2018 preview: Return to the moon as eight missions are planned

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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

For some the year is a C stretching out in front of them, for others it’s a hula hoop. The ways some people visualise calendars could shed light on memory itself

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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

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