Nature News
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Astronomers claim first glimpse of primordial stars
Bright galaxy thought to hold stars from generation that seeded rest of Universe.
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The super materials that could trump graphene
A wave of innovative flat materials is following in the wake of graphene — but the most exciting applications could come from stacking them into 3D devices.
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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 […]