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Research looks at the physical facts behind fiction’s fascination

Rise of online work captured in the first Online Labour Index

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Health benefits of evening classes revealed

Health
Education
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Science

Trial offers hope of a treatment for spinal muscular atrophy

Health
Innovation
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Research

First results from world’s biggest body scanning project

Birds choose spring neighbours based on winter ‘friendships’

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Science

Pigeon flock members can ‘overrule’ incompetent leaders, research shows

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Excess weight has different effects on different types of stroke

The economy's improving but many Ethiopian boys still 'feel hopeless'

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Society
Policy

Throughout history humans have preferred their pigs to be black, suggests study

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Science

Deadly scrub typhus bacteria confirmed in South America

Health
Research

Tuning the instrument: spider webs as vibration transmission structures

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The veil worn by Muslim women ‘may signal that they ARE integrating’ says research

Devotion to rearing chicks can come at a cost for migratory birds

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First test of oral rabies vaccine brings hope to the world’s rarest canid

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Amputees’ brains remember missing hands even years later

Health
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Science finds presidential candidates may be psychopaths – but that could be a good thing

Mental health
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Researchers discover what lies behind the steadfast loyalty of football fans

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Society
Policy

Tree-rings reveal secret clocks that could reset key dates across the ancient world

Science
Research

Greenland shark revealed to have longest life expectancy of all vertebrates

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