Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame.
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Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
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An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests. Fungi enthusiasts are doing damage control.
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'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took twenty minutes
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Special preschools are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink of extinction
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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took twenty minutes
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'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life
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Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating stories of love, loss and epic battles
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Hate Brussels sprouts? You may be living in the past.
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How maths can help you wrap your presents better
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'It was the start of a new movement': the Dutch rewilding project that took a dark turn
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The liquid air alternative to fossil fuels
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Earth has now passed peak farmland. What's next?
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The ancient Roman alternative to daylight saving time; An hour was not a consistent unit of time. In the summer it could be as long as 75 minutes and in the winter it sometimes lasted just 45 minutes.
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Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?
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How electric scooters are driving China's salt battery push
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'It opened up something in me': Why people are turning to bibliotherapy
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Finland's obsession with saunas is going global – what does science say about the claimed health benefits?
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'Its strength is its simplicity': evaluating the effectiveness of cleaning with vinegar
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The scientists who leave little trace at the world's northernmost laboratory in Ny-Ålesund in Norway's Arctic
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This Hawaiian island's 'freakosystems' are a signal of what will be coming to many more ecosystems thanks to human interference
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Minecraft is the world's best-selling computer game – the psychology behind why children are hooked on the game
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Some towns in France and Belgium are giving away free chickens
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In 2019, scientist Steffen Olsen took a startling photo of huskies appearing to walk on water – photo quickly went viral as it revealed reality of Greenland's rapidly melting ice
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Pathfinder 1: The airship that could usher in a new age just had its first outdoor flight
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Sky skimmers: The race to fly satellites in the lowest orbits yet
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On strategies to foster friendships new and old
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Riches thought to lie beneath Greenland have been coveted for more than a century – but how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference
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Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this native species return for good?
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How an English castle became a stork magnet
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How a Soviet zoologist remade the Azerbaijan animal species population
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'Our plan worked': How Vienna prepared itself for a 5,000-year flood
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Finland's Linnunsuo wetland used to be a barren "moonscape" – local fishing communities have transformed it into a biodiverse haven and an important carbon sink
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Giant 'living tractors', water buffalo are bringing nature back to post-industrial wastelands
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Looking for alternatives to flying, Matilda Welin decided to embark on a long-distance cycle from London to Sweden. Here's what she learned.
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Sports where women can outperform men - shooting and distance swimming
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Seal, whale, reindeer – and plankton? When your restaurant is high in the Arctic Circle you have to get pretty creative with your fine dining.
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AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human.
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Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same.
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Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks
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Oysters: The luxury delicacy that was once a fast-food fad
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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Texas' skyscrapers are going dark to keep billions of birds safe
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Northern Sámi, a language spoken in the Arctic, has more than 300 words for snow and a special word for "frightened reindeer" – can it survive in a warmer world?
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The lost art of the death mask
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Why the hovercraft's time might have finally arrived
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Electric vehicles: can 'lightweighting' combat range anxiety?
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The neglected clean heat we flush down the drains
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Sound maps that predict poachers' movements improve government deterrence and response
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