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Following their February breakthrough, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, Ronald Drever and nearly 1,000 LIGO scientists will share the Silicon Valley-backed prize
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A shift in metabolic gear in our ancients ancestors means that humans burn calories much faster than any other primate, giving us energy for larger brains
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A study of labrador DNA revealed more than a fifth of the dogs carry a genetic variation which could predispose them to food-seeking and weight gain
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Water seeping to the surface during the Martian summer might boil so violently it blasts dust off the ground, helping to explain the size of the streaks
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Study found horses’ heart rates increased and they struggled to chew when nosebands were over-tightened, leading to calls for stricter regulations on use
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Gambling is the vice that helped make the modern world. Here mathematician Adam Kucharski explains how casinos and card games inspired many ideas that are now fundamental to science.
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Komodo dragon tops poll, compiled by scientists using Wikipedia page view data, that reveals our favourite reptiles are also among the scariest
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Charla Nash, who was mauled in 2009, returns to hospital where doctors hope ending experiment to wean her off anti-rejection drugs will reverse process
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SpaceSpacePinpoint by Greg Milner review – how is GPS changing our world?Anyone with a smartphone anywhere on Earth knows exactly where they are. But does that leave us lost?
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BiologyBiologyThe world's top 10 reptiles – in picturesKomodo dragon tops poll, compiled by scientists using Wikipedia page view data, that reveals our favourite reptiles are also among the scariest
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GeneticsGeneticsLabradors may be genetically 'hard-wired' for greedA study of labrador DNA revealed more than a fifth of the dogs carry a genetic variation which could predispose them to food-seeking and weight gain
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Medical researchMedical researchResearchers break record for keeping lab-grown human embryos aliveResearch gives glimpse of critical period of human development, sparking calls for debate on current 14-day legal limit for embryo experimentation
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PsychologyPsychologyOpening Skinner’s Box review – 10 psychological experiments exploredImprobable’s dramatisation of Lauren Slater’s provocative book about 20th-century science is disappointingly predictable
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PhysicsPhysics15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun by Lucie Green – reviewWhy does the sun shine? How does the star work? Why is it mostly plasma, not gas? Green gives us the latest mind-stretching facts, and tells the story of the heroes of solar science
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Chemist who won the Nobel prize for his role in discovering buckminsterfullerenes, also known as ‘buckyballs’
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opinion
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Rather than display James Cook’s ship in a traditional museum, why not entrust it to a First Nations co-operative?
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Why can’t all illnesses get the cancer treatment?
Mary DejevskyI hope the latest breast cancer breakthrough is genuine. But I also wish we paid as much attention to other severe conditions -
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Abandon hype in climate models
TIm Kruger, Oliver Geden and Steve Rayner
pictures & video
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A 600kg haul of ancient Roman coins were unearthed in the town of Tomares near Seville on Wednesday
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European Space Agency video captures the moment British astronaut Tim Peake completed the London Marathon on a treadmill at the International Space Station on Sunday
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British astronaut Tim Peake says he will partake in the London Marathon, completing the race on a treadmill on board the International Space Station
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Nasa has released an ‘ultra high-definition’ timelapse video of the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis, as seen from an astronaut’s perspective
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Penguins aren’t the only animal known to form same-sex relationships but they are perhaps the most well known
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A long-awaiting study has produced groundbreaking images of the heightened brain activity unleashed by LSD
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster makes a successful landing on an ocean platform
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Researchers break record for keeping lab-grown human embryos alive