Nature News
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Venerable brain-cancer cell line faces identity crisis
Samples of the cell line do not match its 50-year-old source ― but how the mix-up occurred is a mystery.
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How DNA could store all the world’s data
Modern archiving technology cannot keep up with the growing tsunami of bits. But nature may hold an answer to that problem already.
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Beyond Terminator: squishy ‘octobot’ heralds new era of soft robotics
Ditching conventional electronics and power sources, the pliable robot operates without rigid parts.
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Brain’s chemical signals seen in real time
Imaging technique reveals dopamine surges as mice learn to associate a sound with pleasure.
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Controversial insecticides linked to wild bee declines
Evidence against neonicotinoid chemicals mounts ahead of EU review.
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The bandwidth bottleneck that is throttling the Internet
Researchers are scrambling to repair and expand data pipes worldwide — and to keep the information revolution from grinding to a halt.
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Women in physics face big hurdles — still
Persistent biases continue to affect the numbers of female physicists
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The fiery birth of Earth’s largest ocean exposed
A volatile arrangement of tectonic plates millions of years ago gave us the Pacific.
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Planet hunters seek new ways to detect alien life
Astrobiologists debate which chemical signatures would hint at life on other worlds.