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Between 2002 and 2016, six members of one family in a Kerala village died, one after another, and each death was quietly…
5 min readIn the coldest water on Earth, ordinary animals grow to extraordinary sizes — sea spiders the size of dinner plates, wor…
5 min readOne athlete, once, threw a javelin more than 100 metres. No one will ever be allowed to do it again — because the barrie…
5 min readA fast bowler runs in, releases a ball that looks dead straight — and then, in the last few metres, it curves wickedly t…
5 min readIn March 2026, after his father was killed in the war with Israel and the United States, a secretive 56-year-old cleric …
5 min readBelow a few hundred metres, the sun gives out and the ocean turns to permanent night. You might expect that darkness to …
5 min readA scuba diver who surfaced from a fraction of the depth a beaked whale reaches every day would be crippled or killed by …
5 min readSwitzerland has no oil, no coal, barely any farmland, and not a single metre of coastline. It is small, landlocked, and …
5 min readSome of the strangest animals in the ocean look less like modern wildlife than like something dredged up from deep time …
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