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The matrix: the secret to superhealing regeneration
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UK fracking could come out carbon neutral
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Deep trawling: no plaice for complacency
The European Parliament must ignore news about the merits of trawl fishing in shallow areas when voting on whether to ban deep-ocean trawling
Gamers unleash swarms of nanoparticles on tumours
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Supergoop universe offers a window into glassy physics
A strange reality born that makes molecules out of black holes might be a mathematically easy way to study amorphous solids like glass
Portable lab could guzzle Syria's sarin stockpile
The Syrian president agrees to give up his regime's chemical weapons, and the US has developed a mobile plant that can destroy up to 25 tonnes of chemical weapons a day
Tough robo-challenge casts robots as rescuers
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