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Special cells could let you control your diabetes with coffee
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Black men are left out of cancer trials because of their biology
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Life
The New York bird with a song that may be a thousand years old
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Space
The Milky Way has devoured 15 other galaxies since it formed
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NASA outlines its plans to deal with a large asteroid impact
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These eerie rock towers may have been built by microorganisms
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Mystery gibbon found buried in tomb of ancient Chinese royalty
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Colonists could use genetically modified bacteria to settle Mars
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World’s first sanctuary for beluga whales to open in Iceland
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First evidence that gut bacteria help wire young brains
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Cannabis oil: what is it and does it really work as medicine?
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An entire Arctic ecosystem could vanish within the next decade
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Humans
Calling men by their surname gives them an unfair career boost
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AI trained on 3500 years of games finally beats humans at Dota 2
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First cannabis-based drug approved in the US to treat epilepsy
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