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Earth

Huge crater in India hints at major meteorite impact 4000 years ago

The Luna structure, a 1.8-kilometre-wide depression in north-west India, may have been caused by the largest meteorite to strike Earth in the past 50,000 years

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Mind

Your nationality may influence how much you talk with your hands

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Environment

Wildfire smoke may be deadliest effect of climate change in US

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Environment

Dust clouds from the Sahara are reaching Europe more frequently

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Life

Birds make an ‘after you’ gesture to prompt their mate to enter nest

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Health

Humans spread more viruses to other animals than they give to us

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Life

Tiny deer from the dry valleys of Peru recognised as new species

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Environment

Turtle tagging project is helping protect leatherback migratory routes

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Space

NASA’s mission to Europa isn’t meant to find alien life – but it could

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Humans

Medieval horses buried in London had far-flung origins

Isotopic analysis of horse teeth from a medieval burial site suggest that the animals were imported to England from Scandinavia or the Alps, perhaps for use in battle or jousting

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Life

Dogs really do understand that words stand for objects

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Space

Largest recorded solar storm was even bigger than we thought

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Life

Ant queens have good reasons for eating their own babies

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Life

Male and female spiders pair up to look like a flower

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