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Physics
The Higgs hunter has just turned 10. Why is nobody celebrating?
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Health
The surprising foods that are messing with your gut
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Chemistry
Why creating a chemical brain will be how we understand consciousness
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Humans
Iran's Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia
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Technology
Artificial intelligence is about to revolutionise warfare. Be afraid
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Health
Is your microbiome making you sick?
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Life
We've discovered a shark that eats plants as a side dish to shellfish
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Life
Butcherbird uses vicious whiplash technique to kill its prey
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Humans
A huge water-powered factory helped make food for Roman sailors
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Technology
Watch this bat-inspired robot use sound to navigate and spot plants
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Space
Jupiter has a Great Blue Spot too, thanks to its weird magnetic field
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Technology
Reddit’s megapixel masterpiece illustrates how culture evolves
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Physics
Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3m Breakthrough prize for pulsars discovery
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Earth
Global warming is melting glaciers and that means more tsunamis
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Environment
Filling Sahara with solar and wind farms would double local rainfall
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Health
Probiotics are mostly useless and can actually hurt you
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Technology
Humans, not bots, spread Twitter conspiracies after Parkland shooting
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Environment
Moose and sheep pass down their migration routes through culture
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Technology
Glass box of atomic vapour could work as a James-Bond-style spy radio
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Technology
Google's AI hate speech detector is easily fooled by a few typos
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Health
We've cracked the brain's emotion code and it may help depression
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Space
Japan wants people to virtually embody avatars orbiting in space
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Physics
Antimatter seen in two places at once thanks to quantum experiment
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Humans
Volcanic eruption may have helped drive real-life hobbits extinct
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Environment
Hurricane Florence: Mass evacuation of 1.5 million residents ordered
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Physics
After the cat: Celebrating Schrödinger’s 75-year influence on biology
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Health
Alcohol advisers threaten to quit health body due to industry links
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Environment
Next round of Paris climate talks hits sticking points
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Environment
Governor of California orders state to go carbon neutral by 2045
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Humans
World’s first drawing is a red crayon doodle made 73,000 years ago
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