The wood wide web: The world of trees underneath the surface
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Uranus: Cataclysmic Collision Gave Planet Its Moons, Rings—and Freezing Temperature
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Why do humans kiss each other when most animals don't?
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Pain control: “no evidence” cannabis improves outcomes
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Koala genome project reveals secrets about its toxic diet and disease
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A mass colony of tent spiders have created a mesmerising display in a nature reserve on Australia's east coast, capturing the imagination of locals
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One sinking city's fight against rising sea levels
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New experiments show measurable quantum entanglement in larger, more complex structures.
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Identifying criminals by the 'bacterial fingerprints' they leave behind
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Satellite images capture the spectacular transformation of Lake Eyre
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Bogong moths use the Earth's magnetic field to get their bearings on long distance migrations
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Life is a braid in spacetime
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Wendelstein 7-X stellarator achieves fusion product world record
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Fossils from Alcoota site shed more light on origins of gigantic, goose-like bird
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HIV vaccine to begin human trials in 2019
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Divergence and curl | Fluid flow with complex functions, part one
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What a Russian smile means - How culture and history make American and Russian smiles different
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Will biodegradable polymers alleviate plastic’s environmental impact?
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Going nowhere fast: After the success of the Standard Model, experiments have stopped answering to grand theories. Is particle physics in crisis?
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Big fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us
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Two vortex rings colliding in slow motion
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New technique could help scientists creat custom genes in twenty-four hours
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What happened last time it was as warm as it’s going to get later this century?
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Mammals are becoming more nocturnal to avoid humans, study finds
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When will the Earth try to kill us again: Most mass extinctions began with vast convulsions of Earth’s interior—can we detect that?
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Mozambique: The secret rainforest at the heart of an African volcano
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Moderate exposure to sunlight improves motor learning and long-term memory in mice
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Association of Long-Term Risk of Respiratory, Allergic, and Infectious Diseases With Removal of Adenoids and Tonsils in Childhood
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Can someone please explain what causes this kind of wind on a sunny day?
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Einstein’s First Proof
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How quantum biology might explain life's biggest questions
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This humble Australian bee is helping to disrupt the plastics industry
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Research finds tipping point for large-scale social change
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A pilot study conducted on r/politics on Reddit found that removing downvote buttons did not offer substantial benefits
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Math bee: Honeybees seem to understand the notion of zero
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The tipping point when minority views take over
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Dance of the Honeybees: By pairing the sun’s direction with the flow of gravity, honeybees explain the distant locations of food by dancing, essentially using 2D representations of 6D shapes as guides
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How the brain performs flexible computations: New neural model reveals how the brain adapts to new information.
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Single molecular insulator pushes boundaries of current state of the art: Ever shrinking transistors are the key to faster and more efficient computer processing
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Columbia scientists identify the distinct mechanisms by which mammals discriminate a taste and assign a positive or negative valence
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A better way to trace neuronal pathways: Moving forward by moving backward more effectively
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Researchers create first artificial human prion
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Why rich kids are so good at the marshmallow test
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Research shows consciousness may extend beyond clinical death
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Rare dinosaur skeleton sells for €2 million at Eiffel Tower auction
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Scientists at CERN have observed direct coupling of the Higgs Boson to the top quark
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Riding the tiger: or, flirting with the antivaxxers
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How do aliens solve climate change? Scientists recently modeled a range of interactions between energy-intensive civilizations and their planets
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Looking for life on a flat Earth: What a burgeoning movement says about science, solace, and how a theory becomes truth
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These stunning 3D models are transforming scientists’ raw data
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