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🌡️ 7 ways science can help us survive extreme heat

Last month, a London event on extreme heat was cancelled because of extreme heat. That would be funny if the problem were not killing so many people.

Jul 7 • Elia Kabanov

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June 2026

🧛‍♂️ 7 facts about Dracula, mammoths and bad bosses

Today’s newsletter covers ancient wine, Ice Age diets, toxic leadership, Hollywood ageism, foreign workers in China and why singing at work may be more…

Jun 15 • Elia Kabanov

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🐟 7 alarming things I learned about urban rivers

A local river may look like a place for water, ducks and the occasional shopping trolley, but then river expert Lawrence Beale Collins explained what…

Jun 9 • Elia Kabanov

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May 2026

🪶 9 reasons herons are much stranger than they look

I thought I knew what a heron was: a tall bird with a long beak that stands in water and always looks judgemental.

May 20 • Elia Kabanov

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🩹 7 facts I learned this week

Today’s list explains why peeling tape is basically a tiny sonic boom and how Ryan Gosling’s fox cardigan became the latest knitwear obsession.

May 7 • Elia Kabanov

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April 2026

🌐 A proposal that changed everything

When Tim Berners-Lee, a 33-year-old software engineer, submitted his proposal to CERN management for what would become the World Wide Web, he opened…

Apr 24 • Elia Kabanov

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☕️ 9 facts I learned this week

As you may have noticed, this newsletter has range. Today’s edition, for instance, takes us from a coffee house opened in 1654 to a survey of teenagers…

Apr 16 • Elia Kabanov

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March 2026

🌴 Nobel prizes, grapefruit and camouflage: Things I learned on a Caribbean cruise

I’m back from my Caribbean cruise on board the MV Britannia with a list of facts I learned along the way. For a science writer, even a holiday turns…

Mar 30 • Elia Kabanov

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⚱️ How do you mix up two giant pharaohs?

This week, a behind-the-scenes look at a story that started with a statue and ended with me correcting National Geographic.

Mar 3 • Elia Kabanov

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February 2026

🍄 13 things I learned this month

This week: how a Scottish mountain was once used to weigh the entire Earth, why “Viking” may have been a job title rather than a nationality, and how…

Feb 23 • Elia Kabanov

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January 2026

🦦 7 things I learned this week

This week took me from tool-using sea otters to the lack of female statues, via experimental pigeons, fast-evolving yeast, and Elon Musk enablers who…

Jan 16 • Elia Kabanov

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🗓 25 things I learned in 2025

Not sure anyone was waiting for this, but I couldn’t resist: here’s a partial list of facts I learned last year.

Jan 6 • Elia Kabanov

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