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Premature birth: How its effects can stay with you for life

As more babies born early enter adulthood, the lifelong effects are finally becoming clear. But there are ways to make up for that lost time

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Earth

Test-driving the hydrogen car that makes a little go a long way

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Zika virus is carried by mosquitoes

Life

Whole Zika genome recovered from brain of baby with microcephaly

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Space

Space solar: The global race to tap the sun's energy from orbit

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Life

A Crude Look at the Whole: Complexity is still outsmarting us

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NeuroLogic: The enthralling story of the unconscious mind

CultureLab

Humans

The End of Average tells us why we should discard a mean idea

CultureLab

Don't let ignorance triumph in the US debate on family planning

Health

Don't let ignorance triumph in the US debate on family planning

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Health

'Ditch booze' advice to sexually active US women is step too far

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A drug used for opioid addictions

Health

Tiny doses of opioid could be first fast anti-suicide drug

The opioid buprenorphine reduces people's thoughts of taking their own life after just a week, so it could fill the gap until slow-acting treatments kick in

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Health

Zika virus outbreak: What you need to know

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Life

Three-parent babies may get US go-ahead, but only for sons

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Physics

Does Germany's nuclear waste headache warrant a global fix?

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Life

7 ways the war on Zika mosquitoes could be won

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