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Hunting Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years after her groundbreaking work, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris...

10.06.2025 100

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Sophie Hardach

The Californian mega floods that start in Japan

Storm-hunting planes chase atmospheric rivers through the sky from Japan to the US, revealing new insights into these powerful storms and how we can...

20.05.2025 40

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Sophie Hardach

What the Romans did for Europe's woods

The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the continent's forests. The ancient...

15.05.2025 100

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Sophie Hardach

Renewable energy's trouble with 'wind theft'

As wind farms expand, some can accidentally "steal" each others' wind – causing worries over some countries' energy transition to net zero. As...

08.05.2025 100

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Sophie Hardach

The dark WW2 history written into Germany's parks

Eighty years after the end of World War Two, blasted trees and rubble forests tell a hidden story of wartime bombardment and Nazi terror. In the...

01.05.2025 70

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Sophie Hardach

The polar bears living on a Russian 'ghost' island

A photographer's iconic shot of polar bears in abandoned buildings on a Russian island shines a spotlight on wider changes in their behaviour. In...

09.04.2025 100

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Sophie Hardach

The ancient Germanic history of Groundhog Day

You say Groundhog Day, I say Grundsaudaag: how German and Swiss settlers in Pennsylvania created a new language – and a much-loved American holiday....

03.02.2025 200

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Sophie Hardach

Which is worse for wildlife, wind farms or oil drilling?

US President Donald Trump says that wind farms harm birds and whales. Scientists weigh wind power's impacts on wildlife against those of oil and gas. ...

31.01.2025 100

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Sophie Hardach

How to forge friendships to improve your life

Friendships can bring some surprising benefits to our health. Here's how you can make new friends and strengthen the ones you've got already....

07.01.2025 40

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Sophie Hardach

The 3,000m-high border that's melting away

Changes that begin in the ice at the tops of high mountain ranges are cascading down to lower altitudes. As the world warms, they are changing...

15.12.2024 60

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Sophie Hardach