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Why people start their own countries

By Jessica Mudditt

Would you take the red pill or the blue pill? (Credit: Getty Images)
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The man rethinking reality
By Tom Chatfield
Poker can change how you think (Credit: Getty Images)
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The game that boosts your mind
By Alex O'Brien
Eruptions in the distant past - before written languages and printing - may have had far-reaching effects that endure through myths and fables (Credit: JMW Turner/Getty Images)
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The myths that hint at past disasters
By Mark Piesing
The fishing cat stalks its prey in swamps, wetlands and mangrove forests (Credit: Alamy)
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Saving India’s elusive 'fishing cat'
By Kamala Thiagarajan
Empathy for our fellow human beings can have a dark side (Credit: Getty Images)
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The surprising downsides of empathy
By Richard Fisher
This photo of Barack Obama circulated in 2008, but is fake - the clock is a clue, a reference to a Hillary Clinton TV ad about picking up the phone at 3:00 (Credit: Snopes)
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How to spot fake photos
By Tiffanie Wen
For further clarity, the dots here are annotated. So what does the shape mean? (Credit: Electronic Frontier Foundation/CC BY 3.0)
Lockdown Longreads
Why printers add secret tracking dots
By Chris Baraniuk
Calorie restriction involves a permanent reduction in a diet (Credit: Getty Images)
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The secret to a long and healthy life?
By Alex Riley
The programme, Chibanda believes, can serve as a blueprint for any community (Credit: The Friendship Bench Zimbabwe)
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Zimbabwe's radical cure for depression
By Rachel Nuwer from Zimbabwe
Like other popular areas including Sunny Isles and Hollywood Beach, Miami Beach is a narrow barrier island with the ocean on one side (Credit: Alamy)
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Miami’s fight against rising seas
By Amanda Ruggeri
Woman rivetting aircraft (Credit: Getty Images)
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Why we view pandemics like a war
By Adrienne Bernhard
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Should you be taking vitamin D?
By Jessica Brown
In our modern world, we allow our lives to be run by tight time schedules, but maybe not everything has to run like clockwork (Credit: Getty Images)
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Why avoiding clocks may be good for you
By Lakshmi Sandhana
There may have once been hundreds of thousands of tigers in India's forests (Credit: Getty Images)
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Should man-eating tigers be killed?
By Rachel Nuwer in Karnataka, India
Language fluency can be an elusive goal (Credit: Alamy)
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What does being ‘fluent’ really mean?
By Eva Sandoval