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Breaking relativity: Celestial signals defy Einstein

Space

Breaking relativity: Celestial signals defy Einstein

Strange signals picked up from black holes and distant supernovae suggest there's more to space-time than Einstein believed, says Stuart Clark

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2013 review: Top ten breakthroughs in physical science

Physics

2013 review: Top ten breakthroughs in physical science

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All spruced up: Breeding a better Christmas tree

Life

All spruced up: Breeding a better Christmas tree

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Goodwill hunting: Random ants of kindness

Life

Goodwill hunting: Random ants of kindness

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Why whisky makes you frisky (and gin makes you sin)

Humans

Why whisky makes you frisky (and gin makes you sin)

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Chocolab: The secret recipe for low-fat chocolate

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Improvise! Shoestring solutions to big physics

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Improvise! Shoestring solutions to big physics

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Rudolph to the rescue: Reindeer geoengineering

Earth

Rudolph to the rescue: Reindeer geoengineering

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Sleeping daredevil: The first dream hacker

Life

Sleeping daredevil: The first dream hacker

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Rude awakenings: How swearing made us human

Life

Rude awakenings: How swearing made us human

Our crudest outbursts can unravel ancient links between words and thoughts. They may even hint at our ancestors' first utterances, finds Tiffany O'Callaghan

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Kalahari trackers who read ice-age life in footprints

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Kissing by numbers: Party like it's n = 1999

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51�� 2013 holiday quiz

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Wired Wild West: Cowpokes chatted on fence-wire phones

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