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Life

Cheats and Deceits: The story of how to stay alive

Humans hate cheats and deceivers, but as a new book amply illustrates, it's one of the best survival strategies in the natural world

CultureLab

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Health

Premature birth: How its effects can stay with you for life

Features

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Earth

Test-driving the hydrogen car that makes a little go a long way

News

Zika virus is carried by mosquitoes

Life

Whole Zika genome recovered from brain of baby with microcephaly

News

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Humans

The End of Average tells us why we should discard a mean idea

CultureLab

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Humans

NeuroLogic: The enthralling story of the unconscious mind

CultureLab

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Life

A Crude Look at the Whole: Complexity is still outsmarting us

CultureLab

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Space

Space solar: The global race to tap the sun's energy from orbit

Features

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Health

'Ditch booze' advice to sexually active US women is step too far

Comment

A drug used for opioid addictions

Health

Tiny doses of opioid could be first fast anti-suicide drug

The opioid buprenorphine reduces people's thoughts of taking their own life after just a week, so it could fill the gap until slow-acting treatments kick in

News

Health

Zika virus outbreak: What you need to know

News

Life

Three-parent babies may get US go-ahead, but only for sons

News

Physics

Does Germany's nuclear waste headache warrant a global fix?

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Life

7 ways the war on Zika mosquitoes could be won

News

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