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A Tibetan woman carrying a baby on her back (Credit: Getty Images)
Weird West
Is the Western way of raising kids odd?
By Kelly Oakes
Meat is likely to become a luxury food in the next few decades as more people adopt a plant-based diet to reduce their carbon footprint.
Hidden Value
Could these be the next luxury foods?
By Isabelle Gerretsen
Hundreds of stray dogs roam the Exclusion Zone around the abandoned Chernobyl Power Station (Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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The dogs that stayed in Chernobyl
By Chris Baraniuk
Beavers are versatile, historically widespread animals that can survive in a number of different climates (Credit: Alamy)
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The beavers returning to Utah's desert
By Lucy Sherriff
Queue of people and vaccine (Credit: Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images)
Immune Response
Why some people don't want a vaccine
By David Robson
How attractive our body odour is to the opposite sex can depend on a wide range of factors (Credit: Michal Bialozej)
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Why single people smell different
By William Park
An artist’s depiction of Planet Nine (Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser)
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The giant planet scientists can't find
By Zaria Gorvett
Bottles of alcohol preserved underwater for decades and even centuries are a rich source of long-lost yeast strains (Credit: Brandi Mueller/Getty Images)
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The treasure inside 120-year-old beer
By Chris Baraniuk
A view of New Zealand from the sea (Credit: Getty Images)
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The lost continent that had to be found
By Zaria Gorvett
The secret to making insects palatable to Westerners could be to incorporate insects into more familiar foods (Credit: Grub Kitchen)
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A neglected protein-rich 'superfood'
By Isabelle Gerretsen
The three astronauts plus a diver wait to be picked up, after opening the capsule (Credit: Nasa)
Risk
Decisions that almost ended humanity
By Richard Fisher
Gagarin's iconic presence did not die with the fall of the Soviet Union (Credit: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images)
Russian Right Stuff
The soft power of Yuri Gagarin
By Stephen Dowling
The venom from a saw-scaled viper is highly toxic, but the toxins it contains can vary depending on where the animal is found (Credit: Sushil Chikane/Alamy)
Health
The neglected disease killing thousands
By Richard Gray
The Mirror Universe theory predicts that a kind of "anti-universe" made up of antimatter is expanding outwards from the other side of the Big Bang (Credit: Getty Images)
Space
What if our universe is a sequel?
By Patchen Barss
Avro CF-105 Arrow (Credit: Avro Canada/Canada Aviation and Space Museum)
Design
The plane too ahead of its time
By Mark Piesing
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