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Technology

Radio powered by your own sweat hints at future of wearables 

News

Health

Special cells explain why cabbage and stress churn your guts

News

Earth

Oil-exploration airguns punch 2-kilometre-wide holes in plankton

News

Life

Weird amphibians found at record depth in dark underground lake

News

Life

Bird eggs may be shaped by the way their mother flies

News

Earth

Italy’s drying lakes imperil rare shrimp species found only here

News

Technology

Google on track for quantum computer breakthrough by end of 2017

News

Technology

Google's multitasking neural net can juggle eight things at once

News

Space

Uranus's crooked, messy magnetic field might open and shut daily

News

Technology

Amputees control avatar by imagining moving their missing limbs

News

Health

Living near noisy roads could make it harder to get pregnant

News

Technology

Synthetic iris could let cameras react to light like our eyes do

News

Life

Birds use cigarette butts for chemical warfare against ticks

News

Health

Research on male animals prevents women from getting best drugs

News

Technology

Cyberattack on UK parliament exploited weak email passwords

News

Life

Peruvian monkey avoids stomach trouble by adding mud to its diet

News

Life

Chimps are not as superhumanly strong as we thought they were

News

Space

SpaceX has launched and landed two rockets in one weekend

News

Earth

Ozone layer recovery will be delayed by chemical leaks

News

Health

Senate bill could leave 22 million more without health insurance

News

Life

Modified maize that kills with RNA is given go-ahead in the US

News

Earth

60 Seconds

News

Consciousness helps us learn quickly in a changing world

News

Space

Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern

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