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If a child has learned not to cry on waking, parents may mistakenly believe that she's slept through the night (Credit: Getty Images)
Family Tree

What happens when babies 'cry it out'

By Amanda Ruggeri

Container ship in Suez Canal (Credit: Camille Delbos/Art In All of Us/Getty Images)
Future Now
How big will cargo ships really get?
By Chris Baraniuk
After a few minutes in warm water, the skin on our fingertips wrinkles like a shrivelled prune (Credit: Neil Juggins/Alamy)
Ask a Stupid Question
Why your fingers wrinkle in the bath
By Richard Gray
Imagining the impact of putting all roads underground raises important questions about how our global transport system is developing (Credit: Zhuang Wang/Getty)
Future Planet
The promise of a world without roads
By Laura Paddison
Man stretching out arms is covered in blue powder (Credit: Henrik Sorensen/Getty Images)
Psychology
Why you have a favourite colour
By Mark Ellwood
A memorial tombstone of a sleeping knight (Credit: Alamy)
The Lost Index
The forgotten way medieval people slept
By Zaria Gorvett
Both male and female Neanderthals are known to have interbred with our ancestors (Credit: Lambert/Ullstein Bild/Getty Images)
Best of BBC Future
What was sex with a Neanderthal like?
By Zaria Gorvett
Meat is likely to become a luxury food in the next few decades as more people adopt a plant-based diet to reduce their carbon footprint.
Hidden Value
Could these be the next luxury foods?
By Isabelle Gerretsen
Hundreds of stray dogs roam the Exclusion Zone around the abandoned Chernobyl Power Station (Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Best of BBC Future
The dogs that stayed in Chernobyl
By Chris Baraniuk
Queue of people and vaccine (Credit: Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images)
Immune Response
Why some people don't want a vaccine
By David Robson
How attractive our body odour is to the opposite sex can depend on a wide range of factors (Credit: Michal Bialozej)
Best of BBC Future
Why single people smell different
By William Park
An artist’s depiction of Planet Nine (Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser)
Best of BBC Future
The giant planet scientists can't find
By Zaria Gorvett
Bottles of alcohol preserved underwater for decades and even centuries are a rich source of long-lost yeast strains (Credit: Brandi Mueller/Getty Images)
Best of BBC Future
The treasure inside 120-year-old beer
By Chris Baraniuk
A view of New Zealand from the sea (Credit: Getty Images)
Best of BBC Future
The lost continent that had to be found
By Zaria Gorvett
The secret to making insects palatable to Westerners could be to incorporate insects into more familiar foods (Credit: Grub Kitchen)
Best of BBC Future
A neglected protein-rich 'superfood'
By Isabelle Gerretsen