This microscope uses touch. Gelsight is a microscope that presses gel into the object of study.
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Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are
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Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved
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Promethean beasts - Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition
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Human taste buds can tell the difference between normal and 'heavy' water
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How humans became the best throwers on the planet
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Why prehistoric humans needed no braces: Crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon and a telltale sign of an underlying epidemic
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The cognitive tradeoff hypothesis
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Identical twins aren’t perfect clones, research shows
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Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta
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What is an individual? Biology seeks clues in information theory.
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Does shaving make your hair thicker?
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From your head to your... ass-crack. The truth about hair (Compilation)
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The race to grow human breast milk in a lab
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Coding human data into microbes that will survive for millions of years
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The human genome is full of viruses
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How Europeans evolved white skin
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Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia
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Africa’s biggest collection of ancient human footprints has been found
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Mouse embryos that are four per cent human are step towards spare organs
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'Ghost' DNA from unknown ancestors found in West Africans
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Beyond identical or fraternal: Six rare types of twins
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A new study shows an animal’s lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it’s thirty-eight years
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In pursuit of better baby formula: Replicating human milk is no easy feat—nor is separating the science from the hype
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A chance encounter in an Ethiopian goat pen has yielded a one-of-a-kind fossil: the nearly complete skull of a human ancestor that died some 3.8 million years ago
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Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency
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Pig-Pen Effect: How our "personal pollution clouds" affect indoor air quality
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How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
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The trickster microbes that are shaking up the tree of life: mysterious groups of archaea are stirring debate about the origin of complex creatures, including humans
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Robert Sapolsky: Are humans just another primate?
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New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines
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Human body might be able to pick up on Earth's magnetic field
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Brain-imaging modern people making Stone Age tools hints at evolution of human intelligence
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Semi-identical twins identified for only the second time ever
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Why humans have evolved to drink milk
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The world's oldest person: Guinness, 122-year-old Jeanne Calment and a Russian conspiracy theory
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The world’s oldest woman was 122 when she died. A researcher believes that her daughter assumed her identity in the 1930s to avoid inheritance taxes.
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When tulips kill: Antifungal resistance is here, and it could be just as dangerous to humans as antibiotic resistance
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What makes a human brain unique? A newly discovered neuron may be a clue
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Pygmy people in Indonesia not related to 'hobbit' but evolved short stature independently
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Ancient girl's parents were two different human species
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How ‘bling’ makes us human
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Ambitious 'human cell atlas' aims to catalog every type of cell in the body
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Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter?
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Excitement and problematic developments in development
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Why do humans kiss each other when most animals don't?
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Big fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us
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Mammals are becoming more nocturnal to avoid humans, study finds
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Researchers create first artificial human prion
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