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Life

Mysterious deep-sea sharks biting chunks out of migrating whales

Cookie-cutter sharks rise from the depths to feed on whales – and the wounds they leave are shedding light on both the sharks and their prey

News

Abramovic

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

News

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

News

A black and white ruffed lemur stares at the camera from a tree

Life

Lemur extinctions in Madagascar leave behind doomed orphan trees

News

A pregnany woman having an ultrasound scan

Health

Records reveal gender-selective abortion taking place in Canada

News

G. H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons) and Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) walk together, deep in conversation

Humans

The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould

CultureLab

Cell infected with HIV. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of HIV particles (yellow) budding from the membrane of a host cell (red).

Health

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

News

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Life

Savagely malled: Why 'smart' cities aren't so smart

We don’t need complicated technologies to make our cities tick, argue two new books – we need citizens

CultureLab

Humans

Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

CultureLab

Health

Some stillbirths are avoidable if we know enough to act in time

Comment

Technology

AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS

News

Space

Feedback: Poppers burn a hole in the UK's blanket drugs ban

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