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Can Mount Everest really be climbed in a week?

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Mohamed Salah sinks to his knees and raises his hands in the air as he celebrates Liverpool FC's Premier League title win (Credit: Getty Images)

The Fibonacci sequence achieved by Liverpool's win

By Kit Yates

An illustration of two scientists in lab coats inspecting a giant ear (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont/ BBC)

What your earwax can reveal about your health

By Jasmin Fox-Skelly

Sara Weaner Cooper and her husband stand behind their 'meadowscaped' garden (Credit: Sara Weaner Cooper)

The people 'meadowscaping' their lawns

By Ally Hirschlag

Two female twins coughing (Credit: Alamy)

Are twins allergic to the same things?

By Breanne Hayes Haney

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The photo that captures Covid's terrible toll

By Stephen Dowling

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Illustration of buildings in Venice on a plinth being held above the water level on the branches of submerged trees (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont/BBC)

The ancient forest that supports Venice

By Anna Bressanin

Two people in white suits and bee protecting hoods attend to a yellow wooden beehive with bees buzzing around them and crops seen in the background (Credit: Meha Kumar/ Save the Elephants)

Elephants hate bees – here's how that helps humans

By Gennaro Tomma

A dried up, furled up Selaginella lepidophylla plant (Credit: Alamy)

Why we may soon need to eat 'resurrection' plants

By Alex Riley

A close-up of three chickens on grass (Credit: Getty Images)

The French towns giving away chickens for free

By Lucy Sherriff

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Dire wolves and woolly mammoths: Why scientists are worried about de-extinction

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How 50 years of climate change has changed the face of the 'Blue Marble' from space

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'Its strength is its simplicity': The benefits of cleaning with vinegar

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Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion

Health

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Are breakfast cereals really good for us?

Genetics

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'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race

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How alligators are breathing life into Florida's Everglades

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The genetic mystery of why some people develop autism

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How climate change could affect arsenic in rice