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- Two Species Nobody Had Named, Found on a Cliff Face Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- The Shrimp With a Sun Inside Its Claw A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so violently that it produces a flash of heat nearly as hot as the... Audio
- The War Australia Lost to Emus In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- Chimpanzees, It Turns Out, Have Accents A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- The Bank That Lends Against Cheese An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Why Your Map Would Be Wrong By Lunchtime Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- The Glow Your Skin Never Stops Emitting Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- What Really Carries Your Words Across an Ocean Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio
- The Hotel That Crosses Borders While You Sleep On a European night train, a traveller falls asleep in one country and wakes in another, with the Alps... Audio
- The River Seoul Kept Secret For Half a Century Seoul spent decades entombing a river beneath a highway, then reversed course and dug it back into the... Audio
- What Sunday Still Demands An adult granddaughter returns home for Sunday paella and discovers that her octogenarian grandfather's... Audio