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Does science undermine human rights?

The way we define humanity can affect how we feel about human rights – especially when we see ourselves as biological machines, finds sociologist John H. Evans

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Transgender Olympians in Rio don't have an unfair advantage

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Transgender Olympians in Rio don't have an unfair advantage

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Parasite on a deep-sea fish

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Videos reveal the Russian doll parasitic world of the deep seas

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Bottom trawler scrapes the sea bed

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Deep-sea ecosystems still under threat despite UN protection

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Cyclists on road bikes

Health

Legal ketone sports supplement pushes athletes further, faster

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A small pink and white fish next to come coral

Life

Deepest-ever reef survey by divers discovers new fish species

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Rock chimneys spew what looks like smoke although this is actually on the seabed

Life

Universal ancestor of all life on Earth was only half alive

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Eating each other’s faeces helps earwig young survive famine

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Eating each other’s faeces helps earwig young survive famine

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Dingo cannibalism makes for a dog-eat-dog world in Australia

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Dingo cannibalism makes for a dog-eat-dog world in Australia

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Thousands of fMRI brain studies in doubt due to software flaws

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Thousands of fMRI brain studies in doubt due to software flaws

Historic software flaws could render thousands of fMRI studies inaccurate, but researchers failing to use the right statistical methods is a big problem too

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Life

Meet the philosopher ducklings that indulge in abstract thought

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Life

Jellyfish as you’ve never seen them – meet the underwater aliens

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Life

Jellymageddon: Can we stop the rise of the jellyfish?

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Humans

The musical harmonies you like depend on where you're from

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