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Barnacle geese nest on cliffs to keep their eggs safe from predators. But just days after the chicks hatch, they face a brutal introduction to the outside world. To find food and join their parents, the goslings must plummet hundreds of feet from their nests. Unable to fly, many die in the process. More remarkably, though, as this excerpt from the BBC’s ‘Life Story’ series shows, many also manage to make it through this brutal survival strategy.
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Computing and artificial intelligence
The ‘cloud’ requires heaps of energy to stay aloft. Could synthetic DNA be the answer?
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History
There are fragments of Romani Gypsy history all over the UK – if one knows where to look
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Biology
Brilliant dots of colour form exquisite patterns in this close-up of butterfly wings
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Anthropology
Does Mogi’s future lie with her horses on the Mongolian steppe, or in the city?
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Genetics
Why it took a century to work out that humans interbred with Neanderthals
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Art
The sprawling mural that depicts an unflinching people’s history of Los Angeles
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Personality
A ‘dumpster archeologist’ reconstructs strangers’ stories via what they’ve discarded
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Human rights and justice
An unarmed Indigenous group aims to protect their native lands in this stirring portrait
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Art
In his poem ‘London’, William Blake crafted a bleak vision of the city he loved
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