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How much sunshine do we really need?

Moderate sun exposure is beneficial for our health, but it is important that we protect our skin when outside (Credit: Getty Images)

Editor's Picks

A cartoon explosion as knuckles are being cracked (Credit: BBC/ Serenity Strull/ Getty Images)

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

By Sandy Ong

A herring gull steals a croissant from a table (Credit: Getty Images)

How to stop seagulls stealing your food

By Katherine Latham

A red urban fox balances on a fence in London (Credit: Getty Images)

The animals evolving at super speed to survive

By Lucy Sherriff

A young girl whispers a word in a woman's ear while the woman is on the phone (Credit: BBC/ Serenity Strull/ Getty Images)

The secret codewords that scammers hate

By Thomas Germain

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The Viking word behind American independence

By Sophie Hardach

Earth

Fozzie, a Labrador-Golden Retriever mix, sniffs a blue park bench, his owner in the background (Credit: Clark DeHart for Virginia Tech)

Pet dogs are hunting an invasive bug in the US

By Riley Farrell

A man dives into a pond by a grassy bank while three others swim nearby (Credit: Getty Images)

Open water swimming: How safe is it?

By Francis Hassard

A woman wearing a wedding dress and a soaked veil stands, with her back to the camera, in brown floodwater in front of a large wooden church door in the Philippines (Credit: Aaron Favila/ Associated Press)

The couple who married in typhoon floods

By Diego Arguedas Ortiz

A mottled grey Greenland shark swims beneath bright blue ice (Credit: Lars von Ritter Zahony/Ocean Image Bank)

The shark that lives for 400 years

By Sophie Hardach

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