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Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest
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The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease
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Space
Gooey nitrogen ice may make Pluto’s crater-free heart look young
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How birds focus even with eyes on opposite sides of their heads
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Autoimmune disorder lupus may be triggered by body’s bacteria
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Jupiter's hefty twin found just 12 light years away
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Syncing our brain activity may help us interact with each other
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Bursting your Twitter bubble actually makes you more extreme
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Humans
DNA from another mystery human ancestor lingers in some people
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Estonia to give genetic testing and advice to 100,000 residents
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Dog brain scans show if they are looking at a happy or sad face
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Space
Far-off black hole appears to be shredding and devouring a star
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Virtual reality surgery lets trainee doctors practise operations
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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature
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Earth
Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef
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Space
Chinese space station Tiangong-1 has finally fallen from the sky
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Refusing to accept GM food is safe is like climate change denial
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Just half a degree less global warming would avert food shortage
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Ten ‘one-stop shop’ cancer diagnosis centres planned for England
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Mind-reading headset lets you Google just with your thoughts
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Robots won't take as many of our jobs as we feared, says report
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