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The friendship paradox: You'll never be as popular on social media as your friends © Getty Images

Everyday science

The friendship paradox: You’ll never be as popular on social media as your friends

What do aliens look like? Animals on Earth may hold the answer © Getty

Everyday science

What do aliens look like? Animals on Earth may hold the answer

A graphic introduction to human history © Getty Images

A graphic introduction to human history from Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens

Antarctica: An icy time machine © Alamy

How Antarctic ice can help us travel back in time

Who really found the continent of Antarctica? © Getty Images

Who really found the continent of Antarctica?

What wildlife can I see on Britain's rocky shores? © Sophie Lake and Durwyn Liley

What wildlife can I see on Britain’s rocky shores?

Evolution of stars: The diagram that changed the Universe © Getty Images

Evolution of stars The diagram that changed the Universe

Here’s what could happen if you fell into a black hole © Getty Images

Here’s what could happen if you fell into a black hole

Why are all planets round? © Getty Images

Everyday science

Why are all planets round?

Do you need a crane to build a crane? © Getty Images

Everyday science

Do you need a crane to build a crane?

Alexander Grothendieck and the search for the heart of the mathematical universe © Getty Images

Alexander Grothendieck and the search for the heart of the mathematical universe

Carlo Rovelli on what we can learn from the octopus mind ©Getty Images

Carlo Rovelli on what we can learn from the octopus mind

What's the loudest a sound can be? © Getty Images

Everyday science

What’s the loudest a sound can be?

What wildlife can I see in British hedgerows? © Getty

What wildlife can I see in British hedgerows?

5 photos that show the complexity of microscopic communities © MIMIC, used by permission

6 photos that show the complexity of microscopic communities