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Earth

Lightning round-up: The world’s weirdest electricity

From flashes of light resembling sea monsters to vast rings of glowing red light, lightning comes in an astonishing array of mysterious flavours

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Earth

Bolt from the blue: Lightning doesn’t form like we thought

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Mr Element 118: The only living person on the periodic table

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Humans

Faith of the faithless: Is atheism just another religion?

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Environment

Make like a leaf: How copying photosynthesis can change society

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Emily Morris

Health

Living with a superbug: My next infection could be my last

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Earth

A year on thin ice: Four seasons in a radically changed Arctic

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Health

Internal conflict: How we can make friends with harmful bacteria

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Humans

Rorschach and his inkblots: The man, the test, the controversy

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Physics

Reality check: The hidden connections behind quantum weirdness

Quantum theory says that stuff doesn't exist when we're not looking at it. But weirder-than-weird experiments are resurrecting a long-derided alternative

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Environment

India’s poacher hunter on how he busts wildlife criminals

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Physics

Peter Higgs on knowledge, immortality and the future of physics

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Humans

Inside knowledge: What separates fact from belief

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Humans

Inside knowledge: Why we like to know useless stuff

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