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Earth

China steps up efforts to combat ivory smuggling

Over half of the world's illegal ivory goes to China, but the government is finally sending a clear message by publicly destroying a haul of seized ivory tusks and trinkets

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Space

India’s hefty ‘naughty boy’ rocket comes in from cold

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Physics

Entangled spies: Why the NSA wants a quantum computer

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Health

Preparing students to meet their genes in the classroom

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Health

Obesity epidemic becomes worldwide phenomenon

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60 Seconds

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Health

What Colorado’s cannabis experiment will teach us

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Humans

Learning drugs reawaken grown-up brain’s inner child

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Technology

Africa’s road-building frenzy will transform continent

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Space

Hunting wormholes in a Soviet-era science city

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Space

Huge cosmic voids could probe dark energy

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Health

Breast cancer impersonates neurons to invade the brain

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Space

Dark matter ‘wind’ may be warped by the sun

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Earth

Buoyant magma behind calamitous supervolcano eruptions

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Health

Ancient hunter-gatherers had rotten teeth

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Sleepy sun spreads slow solar wind

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Environment

Mantis shrimp’s darting eyes ape the way primates see

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Health

High-fibre diet may protect against allergic asthma

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Physics

Astrophile: Trio of dead stars could take on Einstein

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Health

Synthetic gene helps HIV vaccine hit shape-shifting foe

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Environment

Elephant shark takes record for slowest evolution

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Technology

Flower-like liquid crystal lens grows like a pearl

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Space

Second tiny asteroid spotted before it hit Earth

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Technology

Lifelogging: Digital locker looks after your stuff

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Mind

Lifelogging: Take a stroll down a virtual memory lane

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Technology

Lifelogging: Even your home appliances could do it

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Health

Lifelogging: Crowdsourcing + life logs = big insights

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Environment

One Per Cent

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