Welcome back, and a weirdly happy or happily weird New Year to one and all.

Crystal skull vodka offered for sale (this is not an endorsement or encouragement)

The bubble universe

Maple syrup and baking soda suggested as cancer treatment

El Greco revealed as a defender of Byzantine art

Astronomical alignments in Danish passage graves

Snowman could burn down the house

Detox treatment is debunked

Strange lights see over Windsor skies

... and over the Firth of Clyde

The mighty Thor scares off a burglar

Golf could "damage hearing"

Huge undersea "wall" discovered

New Year Resolutions are bad for the health

Cancer "cheats cell suicide call"

New reptiles found in Tanzania's shrinking forests

Antibodies take evolutionary leaps in defence against germs

"Meteor swarm" implicated in megafauna extinctions

Thanks to all our newshounds: Roger Marsh, James Quin, Anthony North, Suzanne Hayes, Delvin Wytt, John, Sarah Booker, Narin Bahar, David A McKintee, George Koprowicz

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Updated by: Owen