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Big bang, no boom: Did Planck pop inflation's bubble?
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Time for us all to take charge of our personal data
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Feedback: Amazing miracle water
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The future of the climate is still in our hands
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Zoologger: mollusc grows hardest teeth in the world
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Dance work shows how physics and art Collide@CERN
Dancers whirl and spin just metres away from where the Higgs was found. They're part of a contemporary dance work with a strong attraction
Gleaming beetle one of 60 new species in Suriname
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Is Earth's missing xenon hiding in iron's hot embrace?
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