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Should offensive species names be changed? The organisms that honour dictators, racists and criminals
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Targeted mRNA therapy tackles deadly pregnancy condition in mice
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Will humans ever speak wolf? A scientist unravels the complexities of animal chatter
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Why breast cancer treatments might work best just after your period
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Audio long read: AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them actually work?
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Fossilised faeces helps explain dinosaurs' rise to dominance
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Squid-inspired pills squirt drugs straight into your gut
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Bone marrow in the skull plays a surprisingly important role in ageing
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’Rapture and beauty’: a writer's portrait of the International Space Station
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Surprise finding reveals mitochondrial 'energy factories' come in two different types
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How to recover from the trauma of a climate disaster
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Audio long read: Which is the fairest electoral system? Mega-election year sparks debate
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Massive lost mountain cities revealed by lasers
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Star-eating black hole could power cosmic particle accelerator
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This AI powered 'tongue' can tell Coke and Pepsi apart
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Children with Down's syndrome are more likely to get leukaemia: stem-cells hint at why
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Colossal 'jets' shooting from a black hole defy physicists' theories
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Ancient DNA debunks Rapa Nui ‘ecological suicide’ theory
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The baseless stat that could be harming Indigenous conservation efforts
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Long-sought 'nuclear clocks' are one tick closer
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Audio long read: So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?
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Covert racism in AI chatbots, precise Stone Age engineering, and the science of paper cuts
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Can ageing be stopped? A biologist explains
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The mystery of Stonehenge's central stone unearthed
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ChatGPT has a language problem — but science can fix it
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Where weird plants thrive: aridity spurs diversity of traits
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How light-based computers could cut AI’s energy needs
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Audio long read: Hope, despair and CRISPR — the race to save one woman’s life
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Rapid sepsis test identifies bacteria that spark life-threatening infection
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The plastic that biodegrades in your home compost
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Breastfeeding should break down mothers' bones — here's why it doesn't
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These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly fungus
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Audio long read: How NASA astronauts are training to walk on the Moon in 2026
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Why ‘open source’ AIs could be anything but, the derailment risks of long freight trains, and breeding better wheat
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How do fish know where a sound comes from? Scientists have an answer
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Hybrid working works: huge study reveals no drop in productivity
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Twitter suspended 70,000 accounts after the Capitol riots and it curbed misinformation
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How AI could improve robotics, the cockroach’s origins, and promethium spills its secrets
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How mathematician Freeman Hrabowski opened doors for Black scientists
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Audio long read: How does ChatGPT ‘think’? Psychology and neuroscience crack open AI large language models
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Fentanyl addiction: the brain pathways behind the opioid crisis
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Lizard-inspired building design could save lives
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Alphafold 3.0: the AI protein predictor gets an upgrade
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Talking about sex and gender doesn't need to be toxic
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Dad's microbiome can affect offsprings' health — in mice
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Audio long read: Why loneliness is bad for your health
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How gliding marsupials got their 'wings'
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Living on Mars would probably suck — here's why
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Keys, wallet, phone: the neuroscience behind working memory
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The 'ghost roads' driving tropical deforestation
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Audio long read: Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say
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Pregnancy's effect on 'biological' age, polite birds, and the carbon cost of home-grown veg
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How climate change is affecting global timekeeping
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AI hears hidden X factor in zebra finch love songs
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Killer whales have menopause. Now scientists think they know why
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These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment
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Could this one-time ‘epigenetic’ treatment control cholesterol?
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Audio long read: Chimpanzees are dying from our colds — these scientists are trying to save them
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How whales sing without drowning, an anatomical mystery solved
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Why are we nice? Altruism's origins are put to the test
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Smoking changes your immune system, even years after quitting
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Why we need to rethink how we talk about cancer
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Cancer's power harnessed — lymphoma mutations supercharge T cells
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Cervical cancer could be eliminated: here's how
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Ancient DNA solves the mystery of who made a set of stone tools
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Audio long read: Long COVID is a double curse in low-income nations — here’s why
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Toxic red mud could be turned into 'green' steel
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This AI just figured out geometry — is this a step towards artificial reasoning?
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The science stories you missed over the holiday period
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Science in 2024: what to expect this year
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Audio long read: A new kind of solar cell is coming — is it the future of green energy?
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The Nature Podcast highlights of 2023
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How AI works is often a mystery — that's a problem
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The Nature Podcast Festive Spectacular 2023
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Navigating planets, plays and prejudice — a conversation with Aomawa Shields
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Inhaled vaccine prevents COVID in monkeys
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Cat parasite Toxoplasma tricked to grow in a dish
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