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Earth

Christmas Island’s only echolocating bat has gone extinct

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Technology

Robot made from a DNA strand could deliver cargo in your blood

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Life

It's too easy for bioterrorists to access dangerous research

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Physics

Ultrafast lasers catch electrons relaxing after brief excitement

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Health

Third-hand smoke in furniture and clothes damages mouse organs

News

Humans

World hunger is on the rise again due to climate change and war

News

Life

There are hardly any old fish left in the ocean – and that’s bad

News

Technology

The NHS is using a chatbot to do tedious corporate team-building

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Space

Brown dwarfs have strong magnetic fields just like real stars

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Life

Sacrificial virgin spiders let their nieces eat them alive

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Technology

End-of-life chatbot can help you with difficult final decisions

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Health

Blind people repurpose the brain's visual areas for language

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Life

Sex and aggression linked in male mouse brains but not in female

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Earth

Could we store carbon dioxide as liquid lakes under the sea?

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Earth

Thousands likely to be killed by Hurricane Irma’s deadly legacy

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Life

Tool-wielding monkeys push local shellfish to edge of extinction

News

Earth

Lightning storms triggered by exhaust from cargo ships

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Health

Kids everywhere have damaging gender stereotyping set by age 10

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Human embryos genetically edited in the UK for the first time

News

Space

Cassini ends its 20-year mission by slamming into Saturn

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News

Physics

Gravity may be created by strange flashes in the quantum realm

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The closest star system may be home to a stolen star and planet

News

Earth

Handheld scanner divines how nutritious your food really is

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