Earth
How a bat’s hairy tongue lets it suck up nectar like a sponge
If you're a greedy bat, it helps to have a hairy tongue. The hairs will ensure that you can slurp as much nectar as possible from flowers into your mouth
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Earth
We all need to take our heads out of the sand
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Life
China’s plan to stop recycling the world’s rubbish may backfire
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Physics
A ‘magic number’ of people walking across a bridge makes it sway
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Environment
Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour
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Technology
Shape-shifting origami robot swaps bodies to roll, swim or walk
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Technology
Fighting fakery: How to make products immune to counterfeiting
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Physics
Two-colour pixels let you draw pair of images in the same space
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Health
Plastic cubes injected into the body could replace booster shots
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Atomic assembly lines are a small victory for chemists
Chemists are about to realise their ultimate goal – precise control of the building blocks of matter
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Technology
Atomic Legoland: How to build wonder stuff from the atom up
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Humans
Science fiction picks: Time for a reality check
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Health
Eight great accidents in scientific discovery
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Physics
Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives
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