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Health

Cell tails: The tale has only just begun

Mutations that impair the function of tails or prevent them from developing can have serious consequences. But new possibilities for treatment are opening up

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Health

Cell tails: A cause of common diseases?

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Physics

Saving time: Physics killed it. Do we need it back?

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Earth

Waste away: Nuclear power’s eternal problem

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Health

The Halloween trick that conjures ghosts of the mind

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Humans

The end of anonymity: A way to stop online abuse?

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Earth

What’s happening to the weather-making jet streams?

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Health

Four hearts, one hole: A problem worth fixing?

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Humans

Population paradox: Why richer people have fewer kids

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Health

Hidden depths: Brain science is drowning in uncertainty

The edifice of research being built with brain scans is flawed. It’s time to rethink the approach to build a more complete understanding of the mind

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Earth

Past blast: The lost volcano that set off an ice age

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Life

Cosmic chemistry: Life’s molecules are made in space

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Earth

Extreme rhubarb: The plant that grows a greenhouse

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Life

Life’s purpose: Can animals guide their own evolution?

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