How do you feel what you can't touch? Scientists crack the nerve code.
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Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms
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The 'great dying': Rapid warming caused largest extinction event ever, report says
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Bowel movement: The push to change the way you poo
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Weewarrasauras: Lightning Ridge discovery the first dinosaur to be named in NSW in almost a century
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Looking to fungi, spiders and other natural insect killers for less toxic alternatives to synthetic pesticides
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The great silence
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First gene-edited babies claimed in China
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How a change in climate wiped out the ‘Siberian unicorn’
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The “geno-economists” say DNA can predict our chances of success. Critics counter that their methods are naïve, offensive or both.
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The million-dollar drug: How a Canadian medical breakthrough that was thirty years in the making became the world’s most expensive drug — and then quickly disappeared
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Small farmers in Mexico keep corn’s genetic diversity alive
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Cat tongue spines help smear saliva and inspire new 3D-printed brush
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Smallest known raptor tracks suggest microraptorine activity in lakeshore setting (South Korea)
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DNA testing reveals baffling bird is three species in one
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Sociogenomics is opening a new door to eugenics
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Test tube trees
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Palau to ban sunscreen products to protect reefs
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Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds
Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds Don't misread the headline like I did when I saw it! This isn't about extinctions: we haven't killed off 60% of species. We...
Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds
Don't misread the headline like I did when I saw it! This isn't about extinctions: we haven't killed off 60% of species. We have reduced the population of all animals by an average of 60%.
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Dinosaurs had birdlike lungs
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Hundreds of bees mysteriously die in regional South Australia
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Extreme botany: The precarious science of endangered rare plants
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The Pando aspen clone or 'trembling giant', the world's largest organism, is collapsing
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A man's love of squirrel meat might have given him a horrifying, fatal brain disease
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Scientists chase mystery of how dogs process words
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Most White Americans’ DNA can be identified through genealogy databases
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Meet the scientists bringing extinct species back from the dead
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Introduction to human behavioral biology
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Gender dysphoria may have genetic basis: Australian study
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Arthur Ashkin’s optical tweezers: The Nobel Prize-winning technology that changed biology
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The first “social network” of brains lets three people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads.
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Elephants have a zombie gene that comes back to life to fight cancer
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Human egg precursor generated in a dish
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The dangers of DNA testing - In a new study, 74 out of 108 crime laboratories implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery
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Fossilised fat confirms this Ediacaran fossil is Earth's oldest known animal
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How the octopus got its smarts
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The plight of the North Atlantic right whale, a species with just 450 individuals left in its population, just got even worse
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Exterminate Mosquitoes for the Sake of Humanity
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Early alterations of social brain networks in young children with autism
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Startups flock to turn young blood into an elixir of youth
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Scientists discover giant deep-sea coral reef off Atlantic coast
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What makes a human brain unique? A newly discovered neuron may be a clue.
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The spectre of smallpox lingers
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Pygmy people in Indonesia not related to 'hobbit' but evolved short stature independently
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Whale hunt in Faroe Islands turns sea red with blood
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Can dogfish save Cape Cod fisheries?
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Newly Found Enzymes Can Help Turn Type A and B Blood into Universal Type O
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CMU engineers find innovative way to make a low-cost 3D bioprinter
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Researcher at the center of an epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him
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Private dog cloning, what are your thoughts?
I had a discussion today about the ethics of cloning your pets. It's a thing you can currently pay (a lot) of money for, but I don't really see much discussion about it, even though it's absurdly...
I had a discussion today about the ethics of cloning your pets. It's a thing you can currently pay (a lot) of money for, but I don't really see much discussion about it, even though it's absurdly sci-fi and a little crazy to me that it's a real business.
So what are your thoughts? Is it ethical? Is it a bit weird? Is it perfectly healthy?
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