Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60
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Second Canadian scientist alleges brain illness investigation was shut down
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Ten myths about hunger
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Elephants call each other by name, study finds
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‘Like a film in my mind’: hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations
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Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94
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Daniel Kahneman, renowned psychologist and Nobel prize winner, dies at 90
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Research samples collected over decades at Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet were destroyed when a freezer malfunctioned during the Christmas holidays
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Reindeer combine sleeping and digesting, Norwegian researchers found after extracting reindeer brain data
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Live roundworm found in Australian woman's brain in world-first discovery
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There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit
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Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find
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Parrots taught to video call each other become less lonely, finds research
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Cambridge-Caltech team of scientists claim to have created synthetic human embryos from stem cells at conference; work not yet published
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Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
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Buried deep in the permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is opening its doors to the world with the launch of a new virtual tour to mark its fifteenth anniversary
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‘Self-healing’ Roman concrete could aid modern construction, study suggests
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Dismantling Sellafield: The epic task of shutting down a nuclear site
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Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are
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No one in physics dares say so, but the race to invent new particles is pointless
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Fossil of ‘earliest animal predator’ is named after David Attenborough
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From high-protein food to plastics and fuel, Swedish scientists are attempting to tap seaweed's huge potential
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Crow-plagued California city turns to lasers and boomboxes to clear the air
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Archaeology’s sexual revolution
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Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years
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Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps, with more wasps inside – introduction of Glanville fritillary leads to emergence of three new species on island of Sottunga
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Plans to capture and run six-hour-long sound tests on young minke whales are set to go ahead in Norway despite condemnation from more than fifty international scientists
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Havana syndrome: US NSA officer’s case hints at microwave attacks since 90s
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Rock of ages: How chalk made England
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CT scan catches 70% of lung cancers at early stage, NHS study finds
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Icelandic man receives world's first double-arm-and-shoulder transplant – four surgical teams were involved to minimise the transition time between donor and recipient
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'The platypuses were glowing': The secret light of Australia's marsupials
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Team behind Oxford Covid jab start final stage of malaria vaccine trials
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Coral discovered in uncharted Danish waters – a mapping project led by the conservationist Klaus Thymann has revealed a rich, varied habitat off the coast of Jutland
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What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course
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British farmers need all the help science can offer. Time to allow gene editing
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Johnson & Johnson to stop selling baby powder in US and Canada after tens of thousands of lawsuits from consumers claiming its talc products, including Johnson’s Baby Powder, caused their cancer
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Awakening volcanic region in Iceland could cause disruption for centuries – Reykjanes peninsula's last active period started in 10th century and lasted 300 years
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Scientists isolate bacterial enzyme that rapidly breaks down plastic polymers into recyclable components
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Taking the sting out: Australian gene editing is crossing the pain threshold
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Thirteen years ago, a Montana rancher found two skeletons in combat – the Dueling Dinosaurs. But who do they belong to, and will the public ever see them?
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A new academic field is trying to pinpoint what makes things cute – and why we can’t resist them
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The drugs don’t work: What happens after antibiotics?
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Human body might be able to pick up on Earth's magnetic field
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Brain scans show social exclusion creates jihadists, say researchers
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Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms
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Electrical stimulation allows paralysed patients to walk short distances
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Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free
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First ever trials on the effects of microdosing LSD set to begin
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Science’s search for a super banana
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