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The hidden healing power of sugar

By Clara Wiggins

Each year, 150,000 people hike Scotland’s Ben Nevis, a former volcano and Britain’s highest mountain (Credit: Maas-ter/Getty Images)

Hidden history of the UK's highest peak

By David Cox

John Drury: “The crowd is as psychologically specific as the individual” (Credit: Getty Images)

The secret science that rules crowds

By Christine Ro

JCB backhoe loader (Credit: JCB)

Dig this: How to make a JCB

By Adam Proctor

Those who survive cardiac arrest are often left with permanent heart failure (Credit: Getty Images)

Can we make heart attacks less deadly?

By David Cox

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Do you have a secret British accent?

By Verve Search

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The eerie hospital that served D-Day

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Inside a secret wind tunnel

The American house spider is the most frequently encountered spider in North America (Credit: Zaria Gorvett)

The room with 10,000 spiders

By Zaria Gorvett

Although the 1880 tunnel never was completed, the Channel Tunnel intersected with the century-old version during its construction (Credit: Alamy)

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The Channel Tunnel that was never built

By Chris Baraniuk

The Monument to the Great Fire of London (Credit: Alamy)

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The secret lab hidden in a monument

By Zaria Gorvett

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How glass can heal a broken bone

By David Cox

Volunteers have recreated what one train coming up the tunnel would have looked like here (Credit: Amanda Ruggeri)

The UK’s hidden underground ‘fortress’

By Amanda Ruggeri

One of the team looks through an engine mount that has had the working parts of the engine removed (Credit: Richard Gray)

The hidden treasures of a jet scrapyard

By Richard Gray

This thermal image shows a lack of insulation on a home (Credit: Alamy)

The man who makes you see the invisible

By Nic Fleming

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The world’s largest wind turbines

By Chris Baraniuk