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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For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back?
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After 800 years, volcanic activity has returned to Reykjanes – Andri Snær Magnason reflects on the Icelandic relationship with volcanoes
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The world-first Danish strategy to encourage plant-based foods may contain a lesson for other nations looking to cut back on meat – build new demand first
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At a Helsinki nursery, children spend all day in the forest – how outdoor learning benefits children's health and teaches them to value nature
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Drought and salt tolerant pumpkins grown for food in Bangladesh - potential uses worldwide
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The remote Danish island of Bornholm has pledged to eliminate trash by 2032. How will it get there?
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The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed the way we use language
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Can a map of the ocean floor be crowdsourced?
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The blue flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project
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How a dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist
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Finland is on the verge of becoming the first nation to bury spent nuclear fuel rods deep underground for the long term
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How donkeys changed the course of human history
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As demand for electric vehicles soars, Stora Enso in Finland has hired engineers to look into the possibility of using lignin, a polymer found in trees, to make batteries
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A new way of storing renewable energy is providing clean heat – the Vatajankoski power plant is home to the world's first commercial-scale sand battery
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Citizen future: Why we need a new story of self and society
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Some of the world's most celebrated authors have written manuscripts that won't be published for a century – why?
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Can gravity batteries solve our energy storage problems?
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The medical power of hypnosis
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The strange appeal of garden lawns
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Bullying can make children's lives a misery and cause lifelong health problems – but scientists are discovering powerful ways to fight it
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For centuries, indigenous groups in north-east India have crafted intricate bridges from living fig trees. Now this ancient skill is making its way to European cities.
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