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We need slow science to sow the seeds of future prosperity
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Physics
Magnets, boiling kettles and the secret code underlying reality
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Earth
The father of the Gaia hypothesis shares his greatest invention
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Health
How you can control what happens in your dreams
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Life
Slaughter of an American icon: The Yellowstone buffalo cull
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Health
Heal yourself from inside your dreams
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Leaders
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Space
Glass from nuclear test site shows the moon was born dry
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Health
Antibiotics might kill gut bacteria that protect newborn lungs
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Life
Primitive plants survive almost two years in outer space
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Space
Rare mid-weight black hole found at heart of bright star cluster
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Life
Synchronised swimming seems to make dolphins more optimistic
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Space
NASA wants to put a lander on Europa’s surface to look for life
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Life
Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline
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Technology
AI learns to solve quantum state of many particles at once
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Space
Magnetic meteorites narrow down solar system’s birthdate
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Life
New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride
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Technology
How a raised hand from a pedestrian could stop driverless cars
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Life
Monkeys and dogs judge humans by how they treat others
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Health
Stinky armpits? Bacteria from a less smelly person can fix them
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Technology
Software helps musicians stop slouching by ruining their music
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Life
Foxes seen climbing trees at night to track down and eat koalas
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Life
400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach
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Earth
Secrets of Earth's birth carried in lava jets from planet's core
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Life
Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down
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Earth
Australia's extreme heatwave is a preview of things to come
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Technology
Virtual reality weather add-ons let you feel the sun and wind
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Life
Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome
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Technology
NHS to start prescribing health apps that help manage conditions
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Health
Timing when you get pregnant could prevent a miscarriage
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Space
Mars landing sites for 2020 NASA mission down to the final three
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Health
Human genome editing shouldn’t be used for enhancement – yet
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Earth
Crews race to fix California dam before more rain falls
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60 Seconds
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Physics
Universes that spawn 'cosmic brains' should go on the scrapheap
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Health
Two new drug therapies might cure every form of tuberculosis
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