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The brain: Looking over the neuroscience horizon

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The brain: Looking over the neuroscience horizon

Physicist Erwin Schrödinger suspected that the human mind might be beyond human understanding – but new breakthroughs in physics should give us hope

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Old salt lizard at home in Darwin's primal landscape

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Powder women's eggs for home storage

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Powder women's eggs for home storage

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Our enduring love affair with 'flying jewels'

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The brain: Milestones of neuroscience

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The brain: Milestones of neuroscience

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Heaviest flying bird makes epic journeys to keep warm

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Heaviest flying bird makes epic journeys to keep warm

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Internal compass points cells towards injury

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Internal compass points cells towards injury

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Stars of Jurassic Park to remain featherless

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The brain: More than one way to map a mind

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The brain: More than one way to map a mind

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Google doodle exalts artist and scientist Maria Merian

Life

Google doodle exalts artist and scientist Maria Merian

Today's Google doodle commemorates Maria Sibylla Merian – entomologist, botanical illustrator, explorer and pioneering female scientist

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Quality control opens path to synthetic biology's Ikea

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Stupidity: What makes people do dumb things

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Ships must kill off the beasties in the ballast water

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Fake caviar threatens existence of dino fish

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