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pregnancy and birth

Baby monkeys smile in their sleep - more so than human babies

Life

Baby monkeys smile in their sleep - more so than human babies

Videos of sleeping baby Japanese macaques show they smile much more than human babies.  Are they having sweeter dreams?

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Space

Iridium: story of a communications solution no one listened to

Culture

People in an airport

Health

There could already be 40,000 people carrying Zika in the US

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High Court backs campaign to fund preventative HIV drug on NHS

Health

High Court backs campaign to fund preventative HIV drug on NHS

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Travel warnings for pregnant women

Health

Pregnant women travel warning as Florida Zika cases rise to 14

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Health

Huge boom in teen HIV cases could cause epidemic to spiral

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microbes

Technology

Bacteria made to turn sewage into clean water – and electricity

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Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time

Life

Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time

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An infant with microcephaly caused by zika infection

Health

Zika epidemic could burn out in 3 years but return after 10

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Clinton waves in front of a stage curtain while Sanders emerges from the wings behind her

Earth

Sanders turns the heat up to make Clinton a real climate champ

The Democrats' platform will be tougher on climate change than Hillary Clinton might like, a welcome outcome of Bernie Sanders' popularity, says Matthew Nisbet

Comment

Life

City slicker monkeys are overweight and have high cholesterol

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Health

Huge boom in teen HIV cases could cause epidemic to spiral

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Technology

1970s science follies look groovy in a new light

Culture

Life

Who should we believe when it comes to fertility?

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