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Humans

Vaping beats nicotine gum at helping people quit smoking

News

Space

We’ve hacked the Curiosity rover to learn how mountains form on Mars

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Technology

Self-growing material could make muscles that become stronger with use

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Space

The Milky Way may be slowly devouring a hidden neighbouring galaxy

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Technology

Scuba-diving gear could help clean up carbon dioxide from power plants

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Environment

Virus lurking inside banana genome has been destroyed with CRISPR

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Environment

Seismic boom may explain why 2018 Palu earthquake was so devastating

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Technology

Mind-controlled robot lets you weld metal without using your hands

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Health

Your gut bacteria may match your blood group – but we don’t know why

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Health

People with depression are less likely to have certain gut bacteria

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Space

Here's how we could turn an asteroid into a space station

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Environment

Climate change is making it harder to grow fruit and vegetables

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Mind

Teenagers who copy each other’s risk-taking have more friends

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Health

Women seem to have younger brains than men the same age

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Technology

US and Russia face nuclear arms race as both threaten key treaty

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Mind

Scientists studied a ‘haunted house’ to understand why we love horror

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Life

The ancestor of all creatures on Earth lived a lukewarm lifestyle

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Technology

It now costs more to make bitcoin than the cryptocurrency is worth

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Earth

How Earth's changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution

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