Nature News
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Extreme climate change slowed dinosaurs’ rise
Dinosaurs once dominated the world — but they spent their first 30 million years stranded on its geographic fringes. Large dinosaurs flourished near the poles, but only a few small […]
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Controversial molecular-analysis tool tries for a comeback
The best molecular-structure data — such as those that revealed the architecture of DNA — are often obtained by analysing how molecules diffract X-rays. But to obtain them, the molecules […]
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Friction of a single atom measured with light
Suspended ions mimic strange ‘superlubricity’ phenomenon.
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Large Hadron Collider starts doing science again
The highest-energy collisions ever seen at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are now producing data for science.
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Animal behaviour: Inside the cunning, caring and greedy minds of fish
By revealing that fish cooperate, cheat and punish, Redouan Bshary has challenged ideas about brain evolution.
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Ebola teaches tough lessons about rapid research
Public-health officials make plans for how to speed up responses to tropical-disease outbreaks.
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Alzheimer’s origins tied to rise of human intelligence
The study finds evidence that 50,000 to 200,000 years ago, natural selection drove changes in six genes involved in brain development. This may have helped to increase the connectivity of […]
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‘Young blood’ anti-ageing mechanism called into question
The hunt for the fountain of youth is back to square one — at least for those seeking it in blood. New findings cast doubt on research that attempted to […]
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Early European may have had Neanderthal great-great-grandparent
Genome of 40,000-year-old jaw from Romania suggests humans interbred with Neanderthals in Europe.