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A teenaged girl in Leicester stood before a piece of old technology, one she'd ...
Cooking With Water: The Hydrogen Stove That Runs for Six Hours on 100ml
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Seven Years of Collecting Cans Led Him to Homeownership—Here’s How
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Yorkshire’s Two-Metre Death Trap: The Stream With a 100% Fatality Rate
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The Fosse Dionne Spring: Bottomless and Endless Since the Middle Ages
In the quiet town of Tonnerre, France, lies a spring so strange it borders ...
The Drake Passage: Where Earth’s Most Violent Waters Protect the Planet
Thirteen days of rowing. Six people. Thousands of tonnes of water hurling against their ...
When A Bar Drink Turned Dangerous: Liquid Nitrogen Ruptured A Man’s Stomach
A glass sat on a bar beneath a drifting cloud of white vapour. The ...
The Mistake That Made the Tarte Tatin Famous
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A Taste of Empire: How the Inca Preserved Potatoes for Five Centuries
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Europe’s Elusive “Ghost Cat” Returns To Forests After Decades Of Absence
A motion sensor flickers in a quiet forest in the Czech Republic. Hidden among ...
The Truffle-Hunting Dogs Revealing Nature’s Hidden Fungi
In a quiet North Carolina forest, a curly-coated dog moves through the undergrowth with ...
Built To Die: The Expendable Males Of The Honeybee Colony
Five seconds. That is the entirety of his existence that matters. A male honey ...
The Forgotten Swedish Crown: The Secret Colony That Shaped America’s Foundation
There's a moment that catches most visitors off guard. You step out of the ...
Hy-Brasil And The Phantom Land That Haunted Maps For 500 Years
The island rose without warning. On a quiet Atlantic evening, the sea west of ...
The Mountain of Holes That Could Rewrite What We Know About Ancient Trade
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