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Electrodes fitted behind your ear can make you walk faster
A type of electrical skull stimulation makes us step out faster with longer strides – a finding that could help people with balance disorders to walk more easily
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Humans
Our ancestors mated with the mystery ‘Denisovan’ people – twice
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Earth
These searing hot chilli peppers are in danger thanks to snakes
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New shades: The controversial quest to ‘fix’ colour blindness
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Environment
Two herbivores gang up and silence a plant’s cries for help
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Environment
Dinobird Archaeopteryx only flew in short bursts like a pheasant
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What are Novichok nerve agents and did Russia do it?
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Environment
Daft male spiders prefer females who are more likely to eat them
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Health
Brain zap can make people re-experience old dreams while awake
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Earth
Leopards that live in cities are protecting people from rabies
Wild leopards wander into the Indian city of Mumbai to prey on feral dogs – and in doing so they stop the dogs biting people and passing on the rabies virus
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Earth
A deadly predator could save the UK’s threatened red squirrels
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Earth
Drones reveal huge colonies of 1.5 million penguins on islands
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Environment
Fish called ‘sarcastic fringehead’ has a wider mouth than body
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Earth
A weird underground plant has been rediscovered after 151 years
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