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Hundreds of illegal Chinese fishing vessels spotted near North Korea
Flapping drone can fly, dart and hover like a bird
Hearing restored in rats by modifying ear cells to respond to light
Hungry foxes have been raiding our bins for thousands of years
Recent decades of European floods are among the worst in 500 years
Humans reached the Americas 15,000 years earlier than thought
What is the best way to lose weight and keep it off for good?
Ads for junk food in the UK seem to be concentrated in poorer areas
Hidden nutrition: We don’t know what makes up 99 per cent of our food
IN DEPTH
The secret power of the tequila plant that could help feed the world
Elements from the universe’s earliest stars gave birth to our sun
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Max Tegmark interview: “AI can be the best thing ever for humanity”
How changing the way you sit could add years to your life
Snowpiercer review: Step aboard a post-apocalyptic train mystery
Is there another planet in the universe just like Earth?
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Robots can now give full-body personalised massages at home
Alzheimer’s disease may start in the gut and spread to the brain
Why hasn’t the UK seen a second wave of the coronavirus?
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- Quadruple-stranded DNA seen in healthy human cells for the first time
- Hidden nutrition: We don’t know what makes up 99 per cent of our food
- Material that cannot be cut would make the ultimate bike lock
- The universe may be full of enormous clusters of tiny black holes
- Moon craters hint huge asteroids bombarded Earth 800 million years ago