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whales and dolphins

Coal getting passed arounf the Australian parliament

Earth

There's no such thing as 'clean coal' – it’s dirty and expensive

Australia and the US want to revive an uneconomical and polluting technology, and, worse, Australia plans to take money from a clean energy fund to do it

Analysis

The EU’s renewable energy policy is making global warming worse

Earth

The EU’s renewable energy policy is making global warming worse

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HIV

Life

HIV vaccine therapy lets five people control virus without drugs

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Woman running

Health

Exercise reduces death from breast cancer relapse by 40 per cent

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whale skin

Life

Sperm whale's skin comes off during mass 'scratchathon'

Regulars

Woman is having her stomach scanned via ultrasound

Health

Timing when you get pregnant could prevent a miscarriage

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A man looking exhausted

Life

Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome

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visitors looking at iCub

Technology

Science Museum’s Robots: Who is really pulling the strings?

Culture

Volunteers attending to stranded whales in New Zealand, 10 February 2017

Life

400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach

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Dog being petted

Life

Monkeys and dogs judge humans by how they treat others

Experiments show that both canines and capuchins prefer those of us who help other people, hinting that morality may have a more-ancient origin than thought

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Life

Synchronised swimming seems to make dolphins more optimistic

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Health

Why some people with HIV can now ditch condoms

Insight

Life

Massive lake drained for hydropower leaves dry bed and no fish

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Life

Being friendly puts monkeys at risk in times of revolution

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