Scientific discovery
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The world’s leggiest animal has been discovered in Australia
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MDMA, the drug used in ecstasy, can help treat post-traumatic stress disorder
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50 years ago, an engineer at the Beatles’ record company conducted the first CT scan of a skull
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3,600 years ago, a space rock wiped out an ancient city – and possibly inspired a Biblical story
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Out to solve a 180-year-old puzzle, scientists rediscover Maharashtra’s first endemic tree
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Where is the fountain of youth? In the stomach
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Darwin was wrong (and right) about sexual selection, suggests new research
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Scientists at Cern may have stumbled upon a new force of nature
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Monitoring a mosquito-like aquatic insect may help in predicting cholera outbreaks
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A new discovery can explain why the universe has less antimatter than matter
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Scientists created diamonds in mere minutes by mimicking the force of an asteroid collision
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Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by ancient fungi
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We observed chimps copying humans at the zoo – and won an Ig Nobel
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‘Million dollar problem’: Has the great maths mystery called Riemann hypothesis finally been solved?
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‘Mars is telling us to stay the course’: NASA rover finds organic matter in an ancient lake bed
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Neutron star collision seen for first time, creates platinum, gold and gravitational waves
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Meet the newly discovered spider species named after Bernie Sanders, Obama, David Bowie
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Scientists detect fourth gravitational wave after two black holes collide
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In pictures: Four new species of burrowing frogs discovered in the Western Ghats
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Scientists detect a third black hole merger, reaffirming the existence of gravitational waves
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Watch: This is the world’s first bio-composite car. It’s made from flax
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Scientists name new shrimp species after Pink Floyd
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Watch: How a spinach leaf can be turned into a 'mini human heart' which can save lives
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In pictures: Seven new species of night frogs discovered in the Western Ghats
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There’s an eighth continent called Zealandia in the Pacific
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Watch: Eighty years after it was predicted, hydrogen has been converted into a metal (and it's huge)
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Photos: Top 20 new species of animals and plants of 2016
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Parody Nobel prize winner: Why I lived like a badger, an otter, a deer and a swift
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LIGO scientists detect gravitational waves for the second time this year
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Scientists say they made mouse sperm in a lab, raise hopes for a cure to male infertility
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Scientists confirm existence of gravitational waves, 100 years after a quest for them began
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What has nuclear physics ever given us?