Why are some pandas brown?
Their black and white fur makes them one of the most recognizable animals on the planet, but did you know some giant pandas are brown? It’s i...
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Game, Set, Mouse | Meet the beneficiaries of Wimbledon’s recycled tennis balls
Harvest mice are the smallest mammals in Britain. They are only about the size of your thumb, and live in tall grass across the countryside, usually...
How firefighters are training with virtual reality
Firefighters in the United Kingdom are using virtual reality to practice for real-life blazes, with the technology recreating the unique challenge of...
Susie Dent’s Top 10s: Ten words to pack for your travels
It was apparently Ralph Waldo Emerson who first told us that the journey is more important than the destination. It’s become such a cliché that we of...
The weirdest sports in Olympic history
There are a couple of contentious events at the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympics, with the introduction of breakdancing the main point of minor...
The Statue of Liberty (in Paris)
With the eyes of the world on Paris for the Olympics, we’re looking at one of the city’s lesser-known monuments – Paris’ very own Statue of Liberty...
The Danakil Depression | Life in the world’s hottest place
The terrain looks like something from a faraway universe, but is actually the hottest place on our own planet. Home to acidic springs, salt and lava...
The milkshake that nearly killed Castro (and other curious assassination attempts)
According to a former Cuban intelligence official, CIA assassination attempts got pretty weird during the Cold War. The target: Fidel Castro. The...
Will the land speed record ever be broken again?
For 99 years, the land speed record – the highest speed recorded by a person using a vehicle on land – rose steadily. But since the ThrustSCC veh...
The Sicilian monastery home to thousands of mummies
In the musty basement of a monastery in Palermo, Sicily, there are around 8,000 corpses. Residents of the Capuchin catacombs rage in age and present...
Ten words for the Euros Final
Sometimes situations are so unusual they call for extraordinary words - or at least different ones. As Sunday’s showdown looms, we know it’s going to...
Why are the Dutch so tall?
Humans are getting taller. Over the last 200 years, humans worldwide have grown. This is particularly the case in Europe – and particularly in the N...
