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When physicist Kenneth Libbrecht looks out over a snowy landscape, he doesn’t see a peaceful scene, he sees a laboratory. His microscopic photos show the intricate variety of snow crystals, and reveal the rigorous laws of nature that shape them.
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Love really could be a drug, say scientists, who believe that one day the feelings may be induced by popping a pill or smelling perfume.
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NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research.
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Contaminated battlefields could be reclaimed using common fungi, which wrap themselves around the uranium fragments and convert them to inert minerals
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Superconducting magnets could one day allow multiple spacecraft to fly in formation a requirement for many next-generation science missions
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The first artificial mouth able to munch on hard foods like apples could help improve food quality
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As MPs prepare to debate a Bill updating the law on embryo research, Science Editor Roger Highfield examines the complex issues at stake.
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People can smell thousands—perhaps even millions—of different scents. Yet scientists know that in the nose, there are only about 400 different types of odor receptors—proteins that capture scented molecules so that smells can be identified.
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Many adults have a fear of mathematics but babies are natural born statisticians, reports Roger Highfield.
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One of the world’s deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian researchers, who have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in primates and are now looking to adapt them for human use.
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