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Why some people are mosquito magnets

Mosquitoes identify victims via a cascade of cues, including skin and breath odours (Credit: Alamy)

Editor's Picks

A WiFi router submerged inside an aquarium tank with a goldfish (Credit: BBC/ Serenity Strull/ Getty Images)

The weirdest things that mess up your wi-fi

By Thomas Germain

Astronaut John Young on the Moon's surface in 1971 (Credit: Nasa)

What happens to your brain in space?

By Richard Hollingham

A small orange squid with long, thin legs and one visible eye against a black background (Credit: Dante Fenolio/ Science Photo Library)

When trillions of creatures rise from ocean depths

By Katherine Latham

A woman in pink sportswear stretches, against a deep blue sky (Credit: Getty Images)

Forget New Year. This is the time to make changes

By Melissa Hogenboom

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The Viking word behind American independence

By Sophie Hardach

Earth

Aerial view of sinkhole on Konya plain (Credit: Getty Images)

The sinkholes caused by Turkey's thirst for water

By Katie Nadworny

A man wearing a hat looks at stormy waves crashing over a balustrade, with palm trees and houses in the background, during a strong El Niño event in California in 2016 (Credit: Getty Images)

What a 'super' El Niño means for North America

By Isabelle Gerretsen

A woman in a blue flowery top and greenery behind her reaches up to a tree to cut down a yellow cacao pod with garden clippers (Credit: Asociación Kallari)

The ancient 'farms' hidden deep in the Amazon

By María Paula Rubiano A.

A black-and-white photo of a dwarf minke whale, pictured against a black ocean. The whale is slightly tilted, showing its belly and one eye which looks directly to the camera (Credit: Marcia Riederer/ Ocean Photographer of the Year)

'The moment I made eye contact with a whale'

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Earth

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This super-cooled squirrel could revolutionise emergency care

Health

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News of disease outbreaks can warp our brains in strange and subtle ways

Let's Talk

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'Separate in name and power': How America reinvented English

Technology

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Weak hands and blurry vision: Is your tech giving you 'phone body'?

Earth

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What watching the sunset really does for your health

Crime

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Scotland was the 'murder capital of Europe'. Then it started treating violence like a disease

Earth

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What watching the sunset really does for your health

Earth

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Why the French are painting their windows with chalk to beat the heat

Keeping Tabs

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Why the tech industry wants to take away your screen