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Why does toothpaste contain sweeteners? © Getty Images

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Why does toothpaste contain sweeteners?

Babies from ancient Ecuador found wearing the skulls of other children as helmets © Sara Juengst & Richard Lunniss

Babies from ancient Ecuador found wearing the skulls of other children as helmets

Our favourite quiz and puzzle books from 2019, just in time for Christmas © Getty Images

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Christmas gift ideas Our pick of 2019's best puzzle books

Why does no one at work care about my lovely summer holiday? © Dan Bright

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Why does no one at work care about my lovely summer holiday?

Do I really need to leave my food to stand after it comes out of the microwave? © Getty Images

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Do I really need to leave my food to stand after it comes out of the microwave?

Why is black plastic so difficult to recycle? © Getty Images

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Why is black plastic so difficult to recycle?

Dr Piergiorgio Gentile, who has led a team developing the high-tech honey sandwiches © John Millard/Newcastle University/PA

Post-surgical Manuka honey ‘sandwiches’ help fight superbug infections

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Lise Meitner The nuclear pioneer who escaped the Nazis

Does the Moon look ‘upside down’ in the southern hemisphere? © Dan Bright

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Does the Moon look ‘upside down’ in the southern hemisphere?

Why are lemons yellow and limes green? © Getty Images

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Why are lemons yellow and limes green?

Jim Al-Khalili: Why should we care about science and scientists? © Getty Images

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Jim Al-Khalili Why should we care about science and scientists?

My child has an imaginary friend… should I be worried? © Dan Bright

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My child has an imaginary friend… should I be worried?

A woman examines a TV dinner box she has taken from the freezer © William Gottlieb/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

5 things you probably didn’t know about processed food

Where do smells go? © Getty Images

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Where do smells go?

Adam Pearson and co-host Angela Saini investigate the murky world of eugenics in Eugenics: Science's Greatest Scandal © BBC/Furnace Ltd

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A history of dangerous ideas Adam Pearson on the lasting effect of eugenics