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By Manish Pandey & Ruchira Sharma BBC Newsbeat & BBC Three It’s the early noughties and a new genre of music is emerging from the electronic dance scene – helped by the underground and pirate radio stations. Grime – which draws influences from garage, drum and bass and dancehall – eventually went mainstream a few …

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A small group of French pastry chefs aim to preserve the quality and techniques used to make the buttery, flaky and indulgent pastry from Brittany. O On a Sunday morning in the French coastal town of Douarnenez, a queue snakes out the door of a boulangerie. This is a common enough sight across the country, …

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US consumers are buying electric vehicles – just not at the pace some analysts predicted. A few core reasons keep the average consumer from moving past petrol. T Throughout the past few years, analysts have touted electric vehicles as the future of transport – one Americans would dive into, eagerly and rapidly. The EV market …

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To mark the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who, we’ll be spending the next week tackling the big questions about time, including the science of time travel, how clocks have shaped humanity, and even the mind-bending temporal consequences of flying into a black hole. We’re starting our ultimate guide with 11 mind-bending facts about the physics, psychology …

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