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El Salvador revamps bitcoin wallet after complaints of theft and fraud
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Learning styles in fruit flies may not be related to nature or nurture
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Hong Kong’s car pollution sensors help it clean its air in world first
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Cheap blood test detects lung cancer at an early and treatable stage
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DeepMind has made software-writing AI that rivals average human coder
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Quantum friction explains strange way water flows through nanotubes
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Mind
Anxious and neurotic personality traits linked to ASMR sensations
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Medical dressing works like duct tape to seal internal wounds
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England’s gas boiler ban for new homes should begin next year, say MPs
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Flying robot generates as much power as a flapping insect
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Space
Mars may have been habitable millions of years later than we thought
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Privacy policies are four times as long as they were 25 years ago
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Algal blooms in freshwater lakes are becoming more common worldwide
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Humans
Japanese and English language folk songs evolved in the same way
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Health
Covid-19 death figures reveal huge ongoing impact on minority groups
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‘VB’ is a new and more infectious variant of HIV – but it is treatable
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Space
First truly isolated black hole detected in interstellar space
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Space
Biggest comet from outer solar system ever seen is 137 kilometres wide
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Dog waste may harm nature reserve biodiversity by fertilising the soil
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Thin glaciers suggest Andes faces 'peak water' sooner than thought
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Spinal implants let three people who were paralysed walk with support
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Life
Chimpanzees spotted apparently using insects to treat their wounds
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Are genetically modified pig organs the future of transplants?
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Environment
The end of waste: The grand plan to build a truly circular economy
Features
Environment
Janez Potočnik interview: How a circular economy can help us go green
Features
Physics
Alex Keshavarzi interview: How muons could reveal exotic new physics
Features
Environment
How to cut material use in buildings, clothes, electronics and plastic
Features
Environment
Six graphics that reveal what materials we consume – and what we waste
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