Nature News
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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.
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Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds
Aeroplane detects signature spike in photons that does not fit any known source of antiparticles.
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What makes peaceful neighbours become mass murderers
It’s time to ask uncomfortable questions about the brain mechanisms that allow ‘ordinary’ people to turn violent.
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Pluto-bound craft hunts for hazardous moons
Unknown satellites pose danger to New Horizons mission as it journeys to the edge of the Solar System.