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What is artificial blood and why is the UK going to trial it?

As it struggles to recruit more blood donors, the UK's National Health Service has announced it will start testing transfusions with lab-grown blood by 2017 

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Earth

Brazil agrees to cut Amazon deforestation and boost renewables

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How same-sex marriage ruling skirts science of ‘born this way’

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Life

US Supreme Court backs controversial execution drug

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Technology

Crunch time for Iranian nuclear deal

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60 Seconds

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Earth

The new regions at risk from mosquitoes carrying diseases

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Space

SpaceX rocket explosion is setback for US crewed space missions

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Physics

Physicists launch fight to make data more important than theory

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Space

Rosetta spots sinkholes and patches of ice on comet’s surface

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Earth

Did humans do this? Mystery of weird Amazonian savannah solved

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Physics

Misbehaving pulsar’s sudden slow-down may teach us how they tick

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Earth

Heat-tolerant genes could help corals adapt to climate change

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Life

Rats dream about the places they wish to go

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Health

Dopamine boost restores libido in ageing male fruit flies

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Life

Zoologger: The vertebrate that digs the deepest nest

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Space

Galaxy’s supermassive black hole is a cool neighbourhood for ice

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Environment

Our eye sockets give us a wider field of view than other apes

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Health

Want tall, smart children? Find an exotic stranger

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Hoped-for dark matter flash might be dead stars instead

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Health

Weird cells in your semen? Don’t panic, you might just have flu

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Environment

Antarctic Yeti crabs cling to hot jets and farm bacteria

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Health

Health-hackers: The people building apps to manage their illness

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Technology

One Per Cent

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Technology

Why the internet is giving us worse games, books and music

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