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Reservoir bats: Spreading contagion on night’s wings

Hordes of deadly diseases are lurking in bats and sometimes jumping to people. Can we prevent a major pandemic?

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Health

Sugar on trial: What you really need to know

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Earth

Green sky thinking: Astronomy’s dirty little secret

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Life

The Borneo Hills diet: Pitcher plants’ strange prey

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Life

Mind meld: The genius of swarm thinking

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Physics

From i to u: Searching for the quantum master bit

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Environment

Antibiotic abyss: The extreme quest for new medicines

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Health

Right on target: New era of fast genetic engineering

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Health

Ecstatic epilepsy: How seizures can be bliss

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Physics

42nd St paradox: Cull the best to make things better

Bench your best player to win the series. Close roads to get everyone home faster. Can we harness the power of Braess's paradox, asks Justin Mullins

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Earth

AD 536: The year that winter never ended

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Humans

Talent for prejudice: Why humans dehumanise others

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Space

Wake up and smell the comet: Rousing the Rosetta probe

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Health

Defusing dementia: Why is risk of Alzheimer’s falling?

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