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A round-up of the strangest science stories from around the world.

How dead plants and animals decay, and how living organisms rely on this natural process to survive

In the last decades of the 12th century, the townsfolk of Annan in the Scottish borders were terrified by a sinister nocturnal revenant that stalked the dark byways. “Each night his corpse, driven by

Two recent poetry collections

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