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  1. Landslide Warnings

    How to offer early warnings of landslides in the mountainous regions of south west India

  2. Huntington鈥檚 Disease

    'Breakthrough' in treating fatal brain condition

  3. Ocean Plastic Waste

    UN commits to stop the 鈥榩lanetary crisis鈥� of ocean plastic waste

  4. Malaria Control

    A period of success controlling malaria has stalled

  5. Interstellar Asteroid

    Why is the interstellar asteroid 鈥極umuamua鈥� such a strange shape?

  6. Predicting Earthquakes

    How the length of the day might be connected to the likelihood of a large quake

  7. Skin Cell Therapies

    Scientists grow replacement skin for boy

  8. Health and Climate Change

    How climate change impacts on health

  9. Where Have All The Flying Insects Gone?

    Flying insects decline dramatically in German nature reserves

  10. Stars Colliding

    Detecting a 鈥楤ling Nova鈥�

  11. Childhood Obesity

    Childhood obesity spreads around the world

  12. Body Clock Geneticists Win Nobel Prize

    US scientists win the 2017 Nobel Prize for Medicine for body clock studies

  13. Antibiotic Resistance

    How can we avert the antibiotic resistance crisis?

  14. Mexican Earthquakes

    Why have there been two large earthquakes in such a short period of time?

  15. Farewell Cassini

    Farewell Cassini, the epic 20-year mission to Saturn

  16. North Korea Bomb Tests

    Outrage and alarm as North Korea detonates its most powerful nuclear device

  17. Hurricane Harvey

    Forecasting Hurricane Harvey

  18. Conservation Clashes

    Brazil opens vast Amazon reserve to mining

  19. Sleep Disorders Linked to Preterm Birth

    Insomnia linked to premature birth in study of 3 million mothers

  20. Increased Deadly Heatwaves

    Lethal heatwaves are becoming more common due to climate change

  21. Gene Editing Human Embryos

    Using gene editing to 鈥榝ix鈥� gene implicated in heritable heart disease.

  22. Biggest Explosions in the Universe

    鈥楤iggest explosions in the Universe鈥� captured in unprecedented detail by Bath scientists

  23. 8.3 Billion Tons of Plastic in the World

    World's plastic waste could bury Manhattan 2 miles deep

  24. Giant Iceberg Cleaves Off Antarctica

    Iceberg from Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf finally breaks free

  25. Hold a Soft Robotic Heart in Your Hands

    Hold a soft robotic heart in your hands that beats in time with your pulse

  26. Neonicotinoids Harm Bees

    Prolonged exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides harms wild bees and honeybees

  27. Through the Eye of a Needle

    Dressmakers found to have needle-sharp 3D vision

  28. Transient Global Amnesia

    Transient global amnesia - a temporary and isolated memory disorder

  29. Oldest Homo Sapiens Found

    Discovery of the oldest Homo sapiens' remains shakes our understanding of human evolution

  30. Ultra-Tough Antibiotic to Fight Superbugs

    United States scientists have developed a new tool to help fight superbugs

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