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pregnancy and birth

A person biting into a piece of chocolate

Health

Your choice of chocolate and contraceptive affect your gut bugs

The largest ever study of microbiomes reveals 69 factors that affect the bacteria that live in your gut, including diet and everyday medicines

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Swimming sperm

Health

Sperm-binding beads could work as fertility aid or contraceptive

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The yellow blooms of a flowering mustard plant

Life

Plants may form memories using mad cow disease proteins

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A man lying on a hotel bed with city lights all around through the windows

Health

Sleeping away from home? Half your brain is still awake

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Tokyo tube

Humans

Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

CultureLab

White-headed Capuchin Monkey in Costa Rica

Life

21-million-year-old fossil is North America's first monkey

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Two dolphins andat each end of a cylindrical blue canister, apparently pulling on ropes at each end

Life

Dolphins have a language that helps them solve problems together

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Frontal view of shark's head in dim conditions with teeth lit

Life

Mysterious deep-sea sharks biting chunks out of migrating whales

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Abramovic

Humans

Past, present, future: How do we deal with time?

CultureLab

cards

Humans

Take a punt: The thrilling science of risk and chance

In a world where luck, risk and probability control our everyday lives, three books help us cope better with tricky choices

CultureLab

Earth

What's behind bankruptcy of world's largest private coal firm

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Health

DEA mellowing out on cannabis would make medical research easier

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Life

Lemur extinctions in Madagascar leave behind doomed orphan trees

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Health

Records reveal gender-selective abortion taking place in Canada

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