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Prions point to a new style of evolution

Life

Prions point to a new style of evolution

A form of evolution that involves neither genetic nor epigenetic changes to the DNA has been seen in yeast

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Physics

How fresco-wrecking salty towers build themselves

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Life as a bird

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Tapping technology will create bounty for all

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US to resume building nuclear plants

Earth

US to resume building nuclear plants

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Hurricanes deliver fatal blows to wind turbines

Earth

Hurricanes deliver fatal blows to wind turbines

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The insect survival guide

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Searching the souls of dissidents

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Splash dance: Water crisis choreography

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Power plants: Grow your own electricity

Technology

Power plants: Grow your own electricity

Imagine charging your cellphone from a meadow or harvesting electricity from rice paddies. The technology works, but can we make plant power a staple crop?

Features

A little bit of sin does you good

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The dark side to personalised internet

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Earth

First evidence that shipping noise stresses whales

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Life

The only primate to communicate in pure ultrasound

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