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Life

Climbing plants use taste to avoid clinging to other weak vines

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Technology

Why the dark net is more resilient to attack than the internet

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Health

Artificial embryo grown in a dish from two types of stem cells

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Technology

Image recognition app scans paintings to act like Shazam for art

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Earth

Sponge can soak up and release spilled oil hundreds of times

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Life

Stubborn wasp queens pass their personality on to their colony

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Life

WW2 bomb craters are a home to rare and vulnerable animals

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Technology

Super-fast Parkinson's app will track symptoms more closely

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Technology

Humans control robots with their minds by watching for mistakes

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Health

Brain’s reward system earns researchers €1 million prize

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Life

Brighter sky helped boost US crop yields – but it may not last

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Space

Moon's hidden craters detected by gravity mapper

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Earth

UK’s CO2 emissions lowest since 19th century as coal use falls

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Health

Brain’s inability to see that something is safe causes OCD

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Earth

Deep cuts to environmental research in Trump’s budget proposal

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Humans

Older people are just as good at judging music as younger adults

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Humans

Neanderthals may have medicated with penicillin and painkillers

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Health

Best anti-ageing exercise is high intensity interval training

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Space

Oldest, biggest black holes may have come from enormous stars

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Space

China's new rocket makes its debut flight into space

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Health

Warmer weather could bring fresh Zika misery

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Physics

Fuzzy pulsars orbiting black holes could unmask quantum gravity

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Health

Millions raised for women’s health after Trump’s abortion gag

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