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The former Soviet reserve where snow leopards roam

The rarely seen snow leopard is known as "the ghost of the mountain" (Credit: Gissar State Nature Reserve)

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A collage of a woman looking at a phone (Credit: Serenity Strull/ BBC)

Do you have to be polite to AI?

By Thomas Germain

Ilya Kazansky, CEO of Sphotonix wearing a white lab coat and blue latex gloves holds up a small square glass plate with grid markings on it to see through it (Credit: SPhotonix)

How 'memory crystals' could slash data emissions

By Laurie Clarke

Kraamverzorgenden Sandra Leerves cuddles a newborn baby (Credit: Yenthe van Sasse van IJsselt)

The nurses caring for new Dutch parents

By Melissa Hogenboom

People stand behind a red stall in China while others move past on the street (Credit: Getty Images)

What's the best way to learn a new language?

By Krupa Padhy

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The cities where you'll never see flight ads

By Isabella Kaminski

Earth

Three fat-stemmed king bolete mushrooms lined up on a forest floor (Credit: Getty Images)

How fungi mine rare earth metals from waste

By Chris Baraniuk

An Alpine skier does a jump at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics (Credit: Getty Images)

Why it's becoming harder to be a Winter Olympian

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Silhouetted researchers Erik Trampe and Nadia Nord stand inside the Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico (Credit: Lars Behrendt)

The cave expanding our search for alien life

By Jasmin Fox-Skelly

A line of women, the front three wearing stork masks (Credit: Hargila Army)

The bird of ill omen saved by an all-women army

By Kamala Thiagarajan

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