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The outcome bias erodes your sense of risk and makes you blind to error, explaining everything from fatal plane crashes to the Columbia crash and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The reconstructions offer the first glimpse of what the Denisovan looked like.

They're not coming through the windows - they were already inside.

Youngsters under 10 report being "grossed out" and confused by what they have seen, says BBFC.

Sam Smith asked fans to use they/them but history shows these pronouns aren't new in language.

Police used drones to track down a man who evaded detection for almost two decades.

Astronomers report measurements from a presumed interstellar comet, providing clues about its chemical composition.

Greta Thunberg and her Extinction Rebellion peers remind us that activism is not just about lobbying for change, but doing it ourselves

When Theo Van Eijck was kicked out of a Dutch pilot-training programme in 1964, he stole a plane and flew to Libya.

Marvel at some of the highly commended images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

The death of Osama Bin Laden prompted jubilant scenes in the US, which reflected both what he had done, in ordering the 9/11 attacks, and what he had come to represent, the BBC's Tom Geoghegan writes.

Fertility experts find that the left testicle is warmer, but only when a man has his clothes on.

A historic global agreement aimed at halting deforestation and curbing dangerous carbon dioxide emissions has failed, according to a report.

An amateur astronomer has discovered a comet that could have come from a distant star.

"We are stuck here at the waterfall,” said an SOS note found in a green bottle

The Pure Nacional tree once at the heart of South America’s chocolate industry was believed to have been lost forever – until it was recently rediscovered by accident.

The mass of pumice, the size of Manhattan, is believed to come from an underwater volcano near Tonga.

After a decade as a Buddhist monk, Andy Puddicombe set up Headspace with one of his clients.

How should you travel to reduce your carbon footprint?

How much has been spent on foreign military intervention in Afghanistan over the past two decades?

This project enhances the experience of your Drupal content editors for Gatsby sites using Drupal as a data source.

The drug combination has huge potential and would cost just "pennies a day", say the researchers.

Lucie's new school uniform is on the dishevelled side by the end of the five-year-old's first day.

Lured by a food from her childhood, a woman returns to a country that no longer exists to confront her family’s secret past.