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We can now squeeze a molecule and turn it into one that we want
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Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses
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Space
Weird particle soup may have formed stars in the early universe
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Newly-discovered fungi turn luckless ants into kamikaze zombies
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Quantum trick lets one particle send messages two ways at once
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Beetles hide by looking like the bite marks they make on leaves
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Arctic hit by record high temperatures as rest of Europe shivers
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