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Moody teenagers sitting on a beach (Credit: Getty Images)
Family Tree

The end of the rebellious teenager?

By Richard Fisher

A cloudy sky over Antarctica (Credit: Getty Images)
Get the Facts

What happened to the ozone hole?

By Kira Walker
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Language

The language that doesn't use 'no'

By Eileen McDougall
Once the missing Palomares weapon had been recovered, a bomb disposal team had to find a way to deactivate it (Credit: Getty Images)
The Lost Index

The nuclear weapons no one can find

By Zaria Gorvett
A person looking at stars reflected in a lake (Credit: Getty Images)
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A wooden skeleton shows the hull of a ship under construction (Credit: Jocelyn Timperley)
Pills and brain x-ray (Credit: Getty Images)

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If a child has learned not to cry on waking, parents may mistakenly believe that she's slept through the night (Credit: Getty Images)
Family Tree

What happens when babies 'cry it out'

By Amanda Ruggeri
Despite the depth, many of the USS Johnston’s guns appeared to be relatively intact after 75 years in the deep (Credit: Caladan Oceanic)
Inner Space

Finding the world’s deepest shipwreck

By Stephen Dowling
Most of us don't use the most effective methods for brushing our teeth, despite the health risks of failing to do so (Credit: Alamy)
Health

Why we brush our teeth wrong

By Martha Henriques
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Nutrition

Why fasting can be good for you

By William Park
Every interaction we have with someone else can have a subtle influence on the way we speak (Credit: Getty Images)
Royal

Why the Queen's accent changed

By Sophie Hardach and Richard Gray
Breakfast as we know it was a surprisingly modern invention (Credit: Getty Images)
Food Fictions

Should we be eating three meals a day?

By Jessica Bradley
A memorial tombstone of a sleeping knight (Credit: Alamy)
The Lost Index

The forgotten way medieval people slept

By Zaria Gorvett
Container ship in Suez Canal (Credit: Camille Delbos/Art In All of Us/Getty Images)
Future Now

How big will cargo ships really get?

By Chris Baraniuk
After a few minutes in warm water, the skin on our fingertips wrinkles like a shrivelled prune (Credit: Neil Juggins/Alamy)
Ask a Stupid Question

Why your fingers wrinkle in the bath

By Richard Gray
Imagining the impact of putting all roads underground raises important questions about how our global transport system is developing (Credit: Zhuang Wang/Getty)
Future Planet

The promise of a world without roads

By Laura Paddison
Man stretching out arms is covered in blue powder (Credit: Henrik Sorensen/Getty Images)
Psychology

Why you have a favourite colour

By Mark Ellwood
Both male and female Neanderthals are known to have interbred with our ancestors (Credit: Lambert/Ullstein Bild/Getty Images)
Best of BBC Future

What was sex with a Neanderthal like?

By Zaria Gorvett