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Neuroscience wrongs will make a right

The history of scientific discovery suggests that accepting most neuroscience is unsound is a big step towards a better understanding of the brain

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Cosmic chemistry: Life's molecules are made in space

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Cosmic chemistry: Life's molecules are made in space

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Ghost elephants win Wildlife Photographer of the Year prize

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Ghost elephants win Wildlife Photographer of the Year prize

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Mushrooms are magic at London's Kew Gardens

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Mushrooms are magic at London's Kew Gardens

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The mind minders: Meet our brain's maintenance workers

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The mind minders: Meet our brain's maintenance workers

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Life's purpose: Can animals guide their own evolution?

Life

Life's purpose: Can animals guide their own evolution?

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Fighting iguanas are real-life <i>Game of Thrones</i> dragons

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Fighting iguanas are real-life Game of Thrones dragons

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Microbes frozen in gelatine jail reveal all

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Microbes frozen in gelatine jail reveal all

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Lazy jellyfish use vortex power to rule the waves

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Lazy jellyfish use vortex power to rule the waves

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Smoking in pregnancy linked to child depression

Children of women who smoked during pregnancy seem more likely to have a smaller superior frontal cortex – a brain region involved in regulating moods

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Medicine Nobel for solving how cells shuttle molecules

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Hefty twins shed light on obesity paradox

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The oceans are heating, acidifying and choking

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Earth

Gleaming beetle one of 60 new species in Suriname

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