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We love successful people. We idolise them. But trying to copy them can be dangerous and doesn't guarantee your own ...

Nobel Prize writer Svetlana Alexievich has interviewed hundreds of people in Russia for her upcoming book about love. In these ...

Do we really have free will? In a three part series, BBC Reel explores the hidden powers behind the choices ...

Until the mid-1800s, doctors didn’t wash their hands. They believed diseases were spread by bad smells. This is the story ...

At first sight, there is little clue to the secrets that lie beneath the Château de Brézé in France. But ...

Since 2012, Nobel prize writer Svetlana Alexievich has interviewed hundreds of people in Russia for her upcoming book about love. ...

The humble toilet roll is a relatively recent invention. Throughout history, countless other methods of cleaning have been used. Studies ...

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility ...

Lara Maiklem mudlarking on the Thames Foreshore for BBC Reel. November 2019. source

If anyone has ever 'stolen your thunder', you might be consoled by the surprisingly literal story behind the phrase's origin. ...