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What makes the monarch butterfly’s clock tick?
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Life
Why pregnant women don’t fall over
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Physics
Humid balls help Rockies hit fewer home runs
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Life
Language ‘mutations’ affect least-used words
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Life
Ants have a sense of their own mortality
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Earth
Assisted migration: Helping nature to relocate
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Life
‘Hobbit’ wrist bones suggest a distinct species
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Humans
‘Hobbit’ wrist bones suggest a distinct species
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Life
Climate change is killing US forests
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Earth
Wetter atmosphere points to global warming
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Humans
Starchy tubers gave our ancestors’ brains a boost
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Earth
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