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Mega-canals could slice through continents for giant ships
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Humans
Unholy? Atheists should embrace the science of religion
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Mr Element 118: The only living person on the periodic table
Features
Humans
Faith of the faithless: Is atheism just another religion?
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Life
Make like a leaf: How copying photosynthesis can change society
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Earth
Bolt from the blue: Lightning doesn't form like we thought
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Life
World's largest canary discovered on island of giants and dwarfs
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Humans
Syria chemical attack looks like nerve gas – and was no accident
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Life
Squishy robotic manta ray flaps its wings to spy in the ocean
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Health
Cheap stroke drug boosts pancreatic cancer survival in mice
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Technology
Facebook will use photo-matching tech to take down revenge porn
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Life
How smaller snakes strangle bigger snakes and swallow them whole
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Health
Gluten allergy in coeliac disease may be provoked by virus
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Life
Giant viruses may just be small viruses that stole hosts’ genes
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Technology
Sock puppet accounts unmasked by the way they write and post
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Health
Rich black people have worse health than rich white people
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Technology
New computer vision challenge wants to teach robots to see in 3D
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Life
Sabre-toothed tigers in ice-age Los Angeles had bad back trouble
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Technology
Thousands of fake companies added to Google Maps every month
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Earth
Mass bleaching hits Great Barrier Reef for second year in a row
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Physics
Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010
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Space
Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation
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Space
NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts
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Technology
Fingerprint challenge aims to automate how best prints get taken
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Health
People on ecstasy feel loved-up because MDMA boosts trust
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Radiation-eating bacteria could make nuclear waste safer
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Twisted semiconductors could help project moving holograms
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Health
Injecting virus into brain may relieve Parkinson’s symptoms
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Humans
We dream loads more than we thought – and forget most of it
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Earth
Life could exist up to 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor
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Space
Volunteers spot four super-Earths orbiting sun-like star
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Genetic test for Alzheimer's risk given approval for sale in US
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Earth
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Space
New approach to dark energy might explain our cooling universe
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