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Silver nanoparticles provide clean water for $2 a year

An aluminium water filter embedded with silver nanoparticles is being tested in India in the hope of reducing waterborne diseases

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Iron nanocrystal shape-shifts to get out of a jam

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Quantum clones let hackers hide in background noise

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Drug cocktail

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From vineyard or farmyard

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Sauce for thought

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Going high-tech to keep the world's Muslims halal

Going high-tech to keep the world's Muslims halal

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Physics

Quantum effects get a weirdness scale

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Beautiful bug biscuits to tempt the squeamish

Earth

Beautiful bug biscuits to tempt the squeamish

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Nana from heaven? How our favourite fruit came to be

Life

Nana from heaven? How our favourite fruit came to be

A creationist once held up a banana as proof of God but this is a fruit very much made by humans. Bob Holmes tells its story

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Space

Space oddity: Putting quantum weirdness into orbit

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Health

Red meat boosts gut bugs that raise heart disease risk

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Little ripples make syrup stringy

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Space

Black hole firewall: Trouble on the edge

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