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Britain

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)
Britain
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)
Britain
The secret science that rules crowds
By Christine Ro
JCB backhoe loader (Credit: JCB)
Britain
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)
Britain
Can we make heart attacks less deadly?
By David Cox
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Best of BBC Future
Do you have a secret British accent?
By Verve Search
(Credit: Will Emmett)
Britain
The eerie hospital that served D-Day
Future
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Britain
Inside a secret wind tunnel
Future
The American house spider is the most frequently encountered spider in North America (Credit: Zaria Gorvett)
Biology
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)
Best of BBC Future
The Channel Tunnel that was never built
By Chris Baraniuk
The Monument to the Great Fire of London (Credit: Alamy)
Best of BBC Future
The secret lab hidden in a monument
By Zaria Gorvett
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Britain
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)
Britain
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)
Aircraft
The hidden treasures of a jet scrapyard
By Richard Gray
This thermal image shows a lack of insulation on a home (Credit: Alamy)
Britain
The man who makes you see the invisible
By Nic Fleming
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Electricity
The world’s largest wind turbines
By Chris Baraniuk
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