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biology

Babies play in a daycare together. They play with blocks

Life

Even toddlers expect bullies to get more than their fair share

For the first time, there’s evidence that even 17-month-old infants expect socially dominant people to be treated differently in life, and to get more things

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lab worker

Life

The ethics issue: Should we let synthetic life forms loose?

Features

child awake in bed

Health

Children who sleep less may age faster at a cellular level

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Close-up of a mouse

Health

Old brains can’t hear similar sounds but a drug can change that

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The way we run protects our upper bodies but our legs suffer

Health

The way we run protects our upper bodies but our legs suffer

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age artwork

Health

Why your real age may be older – or younger – than your years

Features

Chimps are not as superhumanly strong as we thought they were

Life

Chimps are not as superhumanly strong as we thought they were

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Peruvian monkey avoids stomach trouble by adding mud to its diet

Life

Peruvian monkey avoids stomach trouble by adding mud to its diet

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Synthetic iris could let cameras react to light like our eyes do

Technology

Synthetic iris could let cameras react to light like our eyes do

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Pieces of cabbage

Health

Special cells explain why cabbage and stress churn your guts

When a type of cell in the intestine detects dietary irritants and stress hormones, it sends distress signals to the brain, telling it to move things along

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Earth

Italy’s drying lakes imperil rare shrimp species found only here

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Earth

Oil-exploration airguns punch 2-kilometre-wide holes in plankton

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Technology

Radio powered by your own sweat hints at future of wearables 

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Life

LA’s endangered pumas to be saved by a $60m bridge over highway

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