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Raindrops make soil bacteria take off and fly through air

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Raindrops make soil bacteria take off and fly through air

When raindrops hit the ground, they throw microbes into the air in aerosols – with possible implications for the climate, agriculture and diseases

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Super-fast Parkinson's app will track symptoms more closely

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You should be eating 10 pieces of fruit or veg every day, not 5

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Health insurer calls analysed for signs of disease in your voice

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Tiny nanoelectrodes record brain's activity without damaging it

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Parkinson's disease may start in the gut and travel to the brain

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Electric fields can stimulate deep in your brain without surgery

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Electric fields can stimulate deep in your brain without surgery

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‘I’m more confident’: Paralysed woman’s life after brain implant

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First home brain implant lets ‘locked-in’ woman communicate

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First home brain implant lets ‘locked-in’ woman communicate

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Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

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Ebola rapidly evolves to be more transmissible and deadlier

The last Ebola epidemic was the worst ever. But it seems the virus quickly learns to spread more readily, which may make the next outbreak even harder to stop

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World war on superbugs can only be won by a UN-led global effort

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Superfast evolution could save Tasmanian devils from extinction

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First diagnosis of dinosaur arthritis shows it lived in pain

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Fixed by light: Flick a switch to banish pain and blindness

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