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Environment

Beautiful but doomed: Demise of the passenger pigeon

Hubristic humans should heed the tale of the passenger pigeon's demise, recounted by three books published on the centenary of its extinction

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Physics

Perfect harmonies: How music was built into science

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Life

A glorious, comprehensive A to Z of living birds

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Technology

Meeting the human faces of the internet’s dark places

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Life

Just how rare is intelligent life in the universe?

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Technology

Sea of selfies 鈥� social media’s monoculture threat

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Physics

The surprising power of the unseen

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Earth

A globetrotting, water-saving tour of sewage gardens

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Festival shows the promises and perils of open data

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Earth

Urban growth: bio-bricks offer a whiff of the future

The latest addition to the New York skyline is more than a smelly oddity: bricks made from corn stalks and mushrooms could be used to build disaster relief shelters

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When art changes the rules for science

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Health

A parent’s guide to reading a baby’s mind

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Health

How Shakespeare’s intensity may help people with autism

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Humans

Beyond the bones: The archaeology of human networks

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