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The swollen brain of the swarming locust These hugely damaging insects might not seem smart, but their brains are 30 per cent bigger than those of solitary locusts: a consequence of group living, perhaps

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Do you care what happens to a baby’s blood sample? Pinpricks of blood taken from newborns are a gold mine for medical research – but now some parents are raising privacy issues. We explore the ethical quandaries – and opportunities – of research using newborns’ blood

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Quantum snooper could get positive ID from one photon “Ghost imaging” using entangled photons offers a way to take digital snaps of objects not directly…

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