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  1. Health and Climate Change

    How climate change impacts on health

  2. Where Have All The Flying Insects Gone?

    Flying insects decline dramatically in German nature reserves

  3. Stars Colliding

    Detecting a 鈥楤ling Nova鈥�

  4. Childhood Obesity

    Childhood obesity spreads around the world

  5. Body Clock Geneticists Win Nobel Prize

    US scientists win the 2017 Nobel Prize for Medicine for body clock studies

  6. Antibiotic Resistance

    How can we avert the antibiotic resistance crisis?

  7. Mexican Earthquakes

    Why have there been two large earthquakes in such a short period of time?

  8. Farewell Cassini

    Farewell Cassini, the epic 20-year mission to Saturn

  9. North Korea Bomb Tests

    Outrage and alarm as North Korea detonates its most powerful nuclear device

  10. Hurricane Harvey

    Forecasting Hurricane Harvey

  11. Conservation Clashes

    Brazil opens vast Amazon reserve to mining

  12. Sleep Disorders Linked to Preterm Birth

    Insomnia linked to premature birth in study of 3 million mothers

  13. Increased Deadly Heatwaves

    Lethal heatwaves are becoming more common due to climate change

  14. Gene Editing Human Embryos

    Using gene editing to 鈥榝ix鈥� gene implicated in heritable heart disease.

  15. Biggest Explosions in the Universe

    鈥楤iggest explosions in the Universe鈥� captured in unprecedented detail by Bath scientists

  16. 8.3 Billion Tons of Plastic in the World

    World's plastic waste could bury Manhattan 2 miles deep

  17. Giant Iceberg Cleaves Off Antarctica

    Iceberg from Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf finally breaks free

  18. Hold a Soft Robotic Heart in Your Hands

    Hold a soft robotic heart in your hands that beats in time with your pulse

  19. Neonicotinoids Harm Bees

    Prolonged exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides harms wild bees and honeybees

  20. Through the Eye of a Needle

    Dressmakers found to have needle-sharp 3D vision

  21. Transient Global Amnesia

    Transient global amnesia - a temporary and isolated memory disorder

  22. Oldest Homo Sapiens Found

    Discovery of the oldest Homo sapiens' remains shakes our understanding of human evolution

  23. Ultra-Tough Antibiotic to Fight Superbugs

    United States scientists have developed a new tool to help fight superbugs

  24. Vaginal Microbiome

    The influence of sexual activity on the vaginal microbiota

  25. Recycling Radio Telescopes

    Africa refits redundant satellite dishes for radio astronomy

  26. Do New Violins Sound Better Than Old Famed Instruments?

    Classical concertgoers rate new fiddles better than revered old ones

  27. Birdwatching from Space

    Conservationists use satellites to count albatrosses

  28. Homo Naledi

    A species of hominin is a revealed to be a contemporary of our own recent ancestors.

  29. The Naked Mole-Rat

    Naked mole-rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen

  30. Sensing the Smell of Parkinson鈥檚

    The woman whose super sense of smell could change the way Parkinson's disease is diagnosed

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