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Overfishing eats away at genetic diversity of fish
Our hunger for fish is damaging their genetic diversity to a greater degree than expected, leaving at-risk species vulnerable
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Congress proposes nixing flagship telescope
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Earthly cargo lofted to orbit on shuttle’s final flight
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World’s first double leg transplant performed in Spain
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Superbug gonorrhoea found in Japan
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US pollution rules could save $280 billion a year
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Newspaper phone-hacking scandal goes beyond voicemail
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Hologram revolution: The theory changing all physics
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Stem cell therapies move into the real world
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Artificially grown tooth transplanted into mouse
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Women with cancer can keep their ovaries
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Crop disease to add to east Africa’s woes
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Sluggish movement at altitude is partly a brain effect
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Quantum quirk makes carbon dating possible
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Human history recorded in a single genome
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Australia’s shiny new carbon tax is an empty promise
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Dark-energy fingerprints found in ancient radiation
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Smart lizard solves a problem it’s never seen before
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Second world war bombers changed the weather
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Pain molecule find could take the sting out of sunburn
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Kinky genes: Biophysics of DNA affects how it works
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Salt or cocaine, a fix is a basic instinct
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Low-energy pulses mean safer heart defibrillation
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Newts able to regenerate body parts indefinitely
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Augmented instruments add virtual input to live music
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Twitter to track dengue fever outbreaks in Brazil
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Computers understand hand-waving descriptions
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Polymer sandwich harvests electricity from waste heat
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Vibrating touchscreens that give you a push back
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US stem cell research in robust health
Despite the best efforts of George W. Bush to stymie research into human embryonic stem cells, the US still dominates the field
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The rise of the splinternet
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Phone-hacking: new technology, ancient psychology
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The human paradox that is common sense
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Why South Africa wants Earth’s biggest radio telescope
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The high cost of being a woman in science
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Life
Kiki or bouba? In search of language’s missing link
Some words just sound right, whatever language you speak 鈥� which might mean humankind's first language is still etched into our brains. David Robson reports
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The children who grow old before they grow up
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Not so simple: Bacteria with backbone
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Not so simple: Big beasts of the bacterial jungle
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Not so simple: Bugs that hunt in packs
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Not so simple: Gulping bugs with the nuclear option
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Not so simple: The good of the many bacteria
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Welcome to the age of the splinternet
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Feedback: Wikipedia’s strange attractor
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