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The seals thriving on an abandoned prison island

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A colourful illustration depicting half a skeleton's face with an enlarged ear with pink paper planes coming out of it (Credit: BBC/ Serenity Strull/ Getty Images)

How to future-proof your ears

By Elizabeth Anne Brown

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Which is the oldest English accent?

By Molly Gorman and William Park

Machinery painted red and green in a brick-walled room (Credit: Chris Baraniuk)

The unlikely hospital that pioneered air con

By Chris Baraniuk

A red-haired woman, wearing a white swimsuit scratches her back covered in mosquito bites

Why some people are mosquito magnets

By Katherine Wang

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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

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