Science
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20 WEARABLE HEALTH TRACKERS
Whether you strap a wellness coach to your wrist or weave subtle sensors into your clothes, these devices are revolutionising how we track our health
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SUPERPOWERED PLANTS
The world of plants is vibrant and diverse, just like this book.
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SECRET STORIES OF LOST BEASTS
We're all aware of the mighty dinosaurs that once roamed Earth, but there are so many weird and wonderful species that have been lost to time.
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ALL ABOUT BLIMPS
Is it a bird? Is it a spaceship? No... it's a non-rigid airship
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SUPER QUESTERS MISSION: RAINFOREST MAGIC
Join adventurers Leo, Lilli and Bea as they transform into superheroes and journey to the rainforest in the pursuit of knowledge.
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HOW THE MIGHTY MAMMOTH RULED THE ICE AGE
Meet the prehistoric giants that roamed the Arctic Circle thousands of years ago
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Have they found LIFE ON MARS?
Although it's by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet
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HOW FAST DO GLACIERS MOVE?
The speed at which a glacier flows depends on its mass, the depth and slope of the underlying rock bed and friction.
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HOW IN-FLIGHT WI-FI WORKS
This technology allows you to scroll to your heart's content while killing time at cruise altitude
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HOW WIGWAMS WERE BUILT
Discover the construction and living conditions inside these traditional domed dwellings
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COULD WE BUILD... AVATAR'S LINK UNIT?
Projecting our consciousness into other bodies and walking on alien worlds might not be such a far-flung concept
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When did we first cage dive with sharks?
The first purposely shark-proof cage was built in the mid-1960s by Rodney Fox, an Australian who had survived a violent shark attack just a few years earlier.
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EARTH'S BIGGEST SHOW-OFFS
It's a funny thing to think of the natural wonders of planet Earth as showoffs, but if you're ever lucky enough to witness the awe-inspiring scale of the Grand Canyon, once you've picked your jaw up out of the red dust, the whole mile deep, 18-mile-wide, billions-of-years-old rock schtick starts to feel faintly ridiculous.
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What is the Encke Gap?
Saturn's beautiful rings are made up of countless individual ringlets, but the distribution of ringlets is not even, and there are several distinct gaps.
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WHAT'S THE MOST DANGEROUS SPORT?
Defining the world's most dangerous sport isn't straightforward, largely due to a lack of statistics and reluctance among sport governing bodies to publicise injuries and deaths.
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Fabulous FESTIVE flora
Discover what makes these plants popular around Christmas time
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WHY DO MY EARS FEEL FUNNY WHEN I GO THROUGH A TUNNEL ON A TRAIN?
Your ears often 'pop' because the tunnel changes the air pressure around the train.
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Antarctic ship Endurance had structural deficiencies
Endurance, which sank in Antarctica in 1915, wasn't as well built for a polar voyage as previously thought, and its owner was likely aware of its shortcomings.
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Pickleball-related eye injuries are on the rise
Eye injuries related to pickleball have increased at an “alarming rate” as the sport's popularity has exploded in the US, a new study finds.
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THE CURIOUS LIFE OF CECILIA PAYNE
This tells the story of the little girl who grew up to be renowned astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne.
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HOW GROWS
Why do we get hair on certain parts of our bodies, and can we get it back once it's gone?
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WILL IT BE A WHITE CHRISTMAS?
A single snowfall can make all the difference
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MUST-HAVE CHRISTMAS TOYS OF THE 1990s
Let's take a nostalgia trip back 30 years to discover how the most-wanted toys of the festive season season worked
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1,400-YEAR-OLD HIEROGLYPHS REVEAL THE NAME OF A POWERFUL MAYA QUEEN
By deciphering inscriptions on centuries-old rocks, researchers have identified the name of a previously unknown Maya queen.
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The building blocks of life have been detected in ice outside the Milky Way
For the first time, scientists have spotted multiple complex building blocks of life in ice around a star outside the Milky Way.
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Astronomers discover a bizarre 'runaway' planet acting like a star
Astronomers have spotted a 'rogue' planet gobbling gas and dust at a record rate, and they can't explain its baffling behaviour.
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6-million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica
Scientists have pulled a 6-million-year-old chunk of ice out of Antarctica, the oldest directly dated ice ever found, and it’s helping them reconstruct Earth’s ancient climate.
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Evidence for AND AGAINST
Over the years, several clues have suggested Martian life, while other indications are against it
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INSIDE AN ATOMIC CLOCK
Measuring time using the Earth's rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the 'tick' of an atom
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Stalagmites adhere to a single mathematical rule
Stalagmites all adhere to a mathematical rule, scientists have discovered after creating equations showing how the dramatic mineral formations develop into different shapes.
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