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Environment

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

Millions of years ago, the jungles of Southeast Asia were home to a veritable King Kong. Yet all we have left of it are a whole load of teeth

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Life

There might be a planet better than Earth – right next door

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Juno probe

Life

Pinball planets: How life could start in a violent solar system

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Mind

The impossible barber and other bizarre thought experiments

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No Shadow

Physics

Matter, energy… knowledge: How to harness physics’ demonic power

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Humans

A history of love, art, power and religion in 10 graves

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Matherly

Technology

I never imagined a nuclear plant’s control system being online

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Humans

How sharing other people’s feelings can make you sick

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Graph showing the gravitational wave signal from LIGO

Physics

Gravitational waves: Your cheat sheet on the find of the decade

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Beluga whale

Environment

Drowning in sound? The sad case of the baby beluga whales

The white whales of the Arctic are among the most vocal of all marine mammals – newborns even babble like human babies. Could this be their undoing?

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Humans

The walls have eyes: Buildings reveal the conflict they witness

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Earth

Last days of Earth: Life in 7 billion years AD

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Physics

How we found them: Inside a giant gravitational wave detector

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Humans

Nightmare FAQs: The 5 dream questions you were too afraid to ask

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