'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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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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