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Health

Brain's face recognition area grows much bigger as we get older

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Technology

Transistor stretchier than skin for ultra-flexible wearable tech

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Life

Miniature brain and skull found inside 16-year-old girl’s ovary

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Health

London road has broken annual legal pollution limits already

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Life

Oxytocin surge before a fight helps chimps bond with their group

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Space

Milky Way's core could be spewing out planet-sized star chunks

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Health

Zapping the brain really does seem to improve depression

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Life

Extinct giant goose used its wings to fight rather than fly

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Health

Massive drop in London HIV rates may be due to internet drugs

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Life

The trunk trick that lets elephants pick up almost anything

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Life

Why mums and babies prefer to keep to one side of each other

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Space

‘Alien megastructure’ signal may be due to star eating a planet

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Life

Gene-silencing spray lets us modify plants without changing DNA

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Health

Mini-brains made from teeth help reveal what makes us sociable

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Technology

Norway is first country to turn off FM radio and go digital-only

News

Space

Space travel's mental health toll could endanger long missions

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China plans telescope to hunt for primordial gravitational waves

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Health

Thousands of birds to be culled in France to stop bird flu

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60 Seconds

News

Technology

Home robot to nudge older people to stay social and active

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Earth

Carbon seen bonding with six other atoms for the first time

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Life

Baboons recorded making key sounds found in human speech

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