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Physics

Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding

Watch our video to discover how best to flamb茅 that cherished festive sweet

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Environment

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

Starry Night painting

Environment

New blues: The quest to make the world鈥檚 rarest colour

AI cartoon

Technology

The epic robot fails that say AI will never rule the world

floods

Earth

England’s soggy place names could predict the climate future

Research funding cartoon

Humans

How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke

holly wreath

Environment

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

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Humans

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

fight painting

Environment

Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine

Nocturnal sun artwork

Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

Before artificial lights blinded our sight, reports of nights as bright as day were common. What lay behind the phenomenon was a mystery 鈥� until now

Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

Environment

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

Environment

Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat

Earth

鈥橲no substitute: The ecological cost of fake flakes on the piste