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The yellow blooms of a flowering mustard plant

Life

Plants may form memories using mad cow disease proteins

Prion proteins are infamous for their role in mad cow disease, but they also help yeasts form memories. They have now been discovered in plants

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A man lying on a hotel bed with city lights all around through the windows

Health

Sleeping away from home? Half your brain is still awake

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Humans

Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

CultureLab

White-headed Capuchin Monkey in Costa Rica

Life

21-million-year-old fossil is North America's first monkey

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Two dolphins andat each end of a cylindrical blue canister, apparently pulling on ropes at each end

Life

Dolphins have a language that helps them solve problems together

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Frontal view of shark's head in dim conditions with teeth lit

Life

Mysterious deep-sea sharks biting chunks out of migrating whales

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Humans

Past, present, future: How do we deal with time?

CultureLab

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Humans

Take a punt: The thrilling science of risk and chance

CultureLab

An open cast mine in Arizona - pic from above showing black earth and a bit of heavy plant machinery for scale

Earth

What's behind bankruptcy of world's largest private coal firm

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Scientist checking marijuana plants at a federal marijuana facility at the University of Mississippi

Health

DEA mellowing out on cannabis would make medical research easier

The US Drug Enforcement Agency is mulling its classification of marijuana and reviewing the science - something its tough laws have stymied

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Life

Lemur extinctions in Madagascar leave behind doomed orphan trees

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Health

Records reveal gender-selective abortion taking place in Canada

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Humans

The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould

CultureLab

Health

HIV defies attempt to edit virus out of human cells with CRISPR

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