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Drone reproduces Rio's Christ the Redeemer statueMovie Camera

Thanks to thousands of photos snapped from the air, Rio de Janeiro's famous landmark can now be experienced on your screen in 3D


Zoologger: Oral sex may be a life saver for spider

Male Darwin's bark spider use genital lubrication and binding to stop their mates from eating them after copulation


Stretchy limpet teeth are nature's strongest material

Spider silk has lost its record for being the strongest natural material – these limpet teeth are six times as strong


Huge epigenomic map examines life's impact on our genes

Analysing the DNA tags that affect how genes behave shows us how nurture interacts with nature to shape who we are and the diseases we develop



Ebola outbreak still has things to teach us

Lessons from the unprecedented Ebola outbreak in West Africa last year are still being learned in preparation for future outbreaks


Work in an age of robots

As automation and the internet sweep away employment certainties even for the creative classes, three books explore the depth of our predicament


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