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US government shutdown: Doing away with the dollar

What would the world look like without the dollar's supremacy? As US officials seek a deal to end the shutdown, some commentators are eyeing alternatives

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Chemical weapons watchdog in surprise Nobel win

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Health

Threatwatch: Disease may run amok while the CDC sleeps

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Health

Badly run trials behind Indian drug testing freeze

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Environment

60 Seconds

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Earth

Nine in 10 European city dwellers breathe bad air

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Technology

Quantum computing contender helps refine Google Glass

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Earth

How UK’s first nuclear reactor for 25 years will work

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Health

Back from the dead: Reversing walking corpse syndrome

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Space

Earth’s super-siblings grew up very differently

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Physics

Light can break Newton’s third law – by cheating

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Earth

For instant climate change, just add one large comet

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Health

Ketamine-like drug lifts depression without the trip

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Environment

Monkey feels touch with prosthetic hand

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Space

Zombie star caught feasting on a soggy asteroid

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Earth

Diving in Bermuda to find the coral reef survivors

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Health

Resistant cancers may hijack fetus’s detox switch

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Health

New botox super-toxin has its details censored

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Life

Zoologger: Elephants understand what it means to point

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Space

‘Black glass’ could be first comet chunk found on Earth

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Humans

Watch specialised number neurons in action

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Earth

Worm turns from zero to climate change hero

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Humans

Hunter-gatherers got on fine with Europe’s first farmers

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Space

Planet Bling: solar system’s giants host megadiamonds

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Technology

Solar-powered cars streak across Australia

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Technology

One Per Cent

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Humans

Virtual role-playing teaches kids the harm of bullying

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Technology

Augmented reality system makes cars see-through

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