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Macron urges Apple chief to boost investment in France

MoviePass to be jettisoned by parent company

Wildlife on the highway to hell: Roadkill in the largest wetland, Pantanal region, Brazil

Politics interferes with the ability to assess expertise

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Professional, not personal, familiarity works for virtual teams

Adaptive behavior, markets, and what it means for curing cancer

E-cigarettes and a new threat—how to dispose of them

'Soil probiotics' promise bigger, healthier crops, but there's a downside

Is that new doll spying on your kids?

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Cancer-causing toxicants found in a tributary of South Africa's second largest river

Apple offers a range of iPhones, from $450 to $1,100

Requiem or renewal? This is how a tropical city like Darwin can regain its cool

Hubble moving closer to normal science operations

How can we reduce the environmental cost of cement?

More in depth data is required to reveal the true global footprint of fishing

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Electric cars are a hazard for blind people

Non-native plants in homeowners' yards endanger wildlife, researchers report

Wine's origin might affect acceptable price more than taste study shows

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Testing an undersea robot that can detect and map oil spills

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Study of tree rings offers more evidence of poleward migration of tropical storms

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These kids and young adults want their day in court on climate change

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Do mussels reveal the fate of the oceans?

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Smartphone app brings atoms and molecules to life like never before

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Ultra-close stars discovered inside a planetary nebula

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Seagrass meadows—an underwater time capsule for archaeology

Quiescent British Columbia fault capable of producing large earthquakes

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Edible crabs won't cope with the effects of climate change on seawater – new study

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Scientists warn of insect pest outbreaks and reduced wheat yields

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Green spaces help combat loneliness – but they demand investment

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More antimicrobial resistance in pigs than in broilers in Europe

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Genomic analysis helps in discovery of unusual new bird species from Indonesia

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Artificial intelligence will make you smarter

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Study shows equality frees women to follow traditional gender choices – or does it?

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Europa plume sites lack expected heat signatures

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Insights into the behaviour of structural materials in a molten salt environment

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New definition returns meaning to information

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Financial and non-financial firms need the same strong regulations to protect economies

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Rapid effects of climate change on plants and their ecosystems

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Battle of the video speakers: Amazon Echo Show vs. Google Home Hub

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Bonobo: great ape with a tiny voice

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A step toward metal organic framework synthesis

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Gas-detecting laser device gets an upgrade

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Tuneable emissive organic platform

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Record-setting transfer of 1 petabyte of data

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Zooming in on Mexico's landscape

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A day to celebrate chemistry's favorite unit—the mole. But what's a mole?

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Study suggests over $1 billion needed annually to save Africa's lion parks

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Uber plans pollution levy on London fares

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Revolutionising the Nile tilapia breeding program using DNA

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Sponges from Mars? Study suggests water on the red planet could support life

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Drought cripples crucial German waterways

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Plan developed to characterize and identify ocean worlds

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BMW recalls over 1 mn cars over exhaust system fire risk

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Avian neuroscientists identify new stress response component in poultry brain

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Self-assembling silicone-based polymers

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Changes in snow coverage threaten biodiversity of Arctic nature

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Life cycle of sulphur predicts location of valuable minerals

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Image: Cloudlets swarm around our local supermassive black hole

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World's oldest intact shipwreck found in Black Sea

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iPhone XR makes the right trade-offs for a cheaper price

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A nutty idea—a little stress could be good for walnuts

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Student discovers slowest ever pulsar star

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Tim Cook wants retraction of Chinese spy-chip story that named Apple, Supermicro

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Researchers discover drug that could combat brain cell death in those with Alzheimer's disease

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Taking a close look at bacteria

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New technique promises more accurate genomes

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Studying the hotbed of horizontal gene transfers

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Reading between the lines: Are we as savvy as we'd like to think when it comes to reviews?

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Highly efficient cooling using a new nanoporous solid

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Researchers validate 80-year-old ferroelectric theory

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The role of the Atg2 protein in tethering pre-autophagosomal membranes to the endoplasmic reticulum

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Researchers have discovered a new cell structure

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Russian physicists postulate the existence of dark matter-based Bose stars

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Researchers observe organic chemical reaction with electron microscope

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Researchers report strategy for preventing the anthrax bacterium from absorbing iron

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Cheminformatics approaches to creating new hair dyes

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Women most likely to leave labor force after first child, not later births

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First-ever atlas of big-game migrations

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Google Maps for iOS will now allow you to share real-time updates with friends

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NASA's First Image of Mars from a CubeSat

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Breakthrough test screens for all known bacterial infections

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Dyson to build electric car in Singapore, aiming at China

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Inexpensive chip-based device may transform spectrometry

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Judge slashes award but upholds verdict in Monsanto cancer trial

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Snapcrap app steps in to take on public poop

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Cryptocurrency bitcoin marks 10 years

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'Dinosaur country': fossil hunters' S. African paradise

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Q&A: What is bitcoin?

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Wall Street greets bitcoin with interest and worry

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Facebook closes 'spam' pages, accounts helping Brazil presidential candidate

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Moscow cryptocurrency 'boutique' in legal grey area

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Rise, fall and suspense: bitcoin's wild first decade

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China opens mega-bridge linking Hong Kong to mainland

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Black men have higher rates of recidivism despite lower risk factors: study

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New technology encodes and processes video orders of magnitude faster than current methods

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The secret to being more likeable on first dates and job interviews revealed

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35 top prize winners warn Brexit will damage science

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Mexico braces for 'potentially catastrophic' Hurricane Willa

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Dangerous Hurricane Willa probed By NASA and Japan's GPM satellite

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Children as young as seven suffer effects of discrimination, study shows

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How rants on social media can come back to haunt you

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Mega Millions, Powerball prizes come down to math, long odds

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Young climate activists say their lawsuit should go to trial

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'Himalayan Viagra' under threat from climate change: researchers

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Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe joins exodus from Facebook

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Gravitational waves could soon provide measure of universe's expansion

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