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The pilot who stole a secret Soviet jet

By Stephen Dowling

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How to hallucinate without drugs

By William Park
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Why people start their own countries

By Jessica Mudditt
Would you take the red pill or the blue pill? (Credit: Getty Images)
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The man rethinking reality

By Tom Chatfield
Poker can change how you think (Credit: Getty Images)
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The game that boosts your mind

By Alex O'Brien
Eruptions in the distant past - before written languages and printing - may have had far-reaching effects that endure through myths and fables (Credit: JMW Turner/Getty Images)
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The myths that hint at past disasters

By Mark Piesing
The fishing cat stalks its prey in swamps, wetlands and mangrove forests (Credit: Alamy)
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Saving India’s elusive 'fishing cat'

By Kamala Thiagarajan
Empathy for our fellow human beings can have a dark side (Credit: Getty Images)
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The surprising downsides of empathy

By Richard Fisher
This photo of Barack Obama circulated in 2008, but is fake - the clock is a clue, a reference to a Hillary Clinton TV ad about picking up the phone at 3:00 (Credit: Snopes)
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How to spot fake photos

By Tiffanie Wen
For further clarity, the dots here are annotated. So what does the shape mean? (Credit: Electronic Frontier Foundation/CC BY 3.0)
Lockdown Longreads

Why printers add secret tracking dots

By Chris Baraniuk
Calorie restriction involves a permanent reduction in a diet (Credit: Getty Images)
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The secret to a long and healthy life?

By Alex Riley
The programme, Chibanda believes, can serve as a blueprint for any community (Credit: The Friendship Bench Zimbabwe)
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Zimbabwe's radical cure for depression

By Rachel Nuwer from Zimbabwe
Like other popular areas including Sunny Isles and Hollywood Beach, Miami Beach is a narrow barrier island with the ocean on one side (Credit: Alamy)
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Miami’s fight against rising seas

By Amanda Ruggeri
Woman rivetting aircraft (Credit: Getty Images)
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Why we view pandemics like a war

By Adrienne Bernhard
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Should you be taking vitamin D?

By Jessica Brown
There may have once been hundreds of thousands of tigers in India's forests (Credit: Getty Images)
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Should man-eating tigers be killed?

By Rachel Nuwer in Karnataka, India