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Drone buzzes South America's first wildlife bridge
Aerial footage reveals a unique green overpass designed to reconnect habitats sliced in two by an Argentinean road
Great white sharks attack prey under cover of sun
It seems great white sharks exploit the glare of the sun to catch their prey unawares
Body swaps sound like fantasy, but pose real questions
Transplanting living human heads onto new bodies raises extraordinary ethical questions. We'd better think about them before someone tries it
Feedback: Ferrari jumps the units shark
Oceans and oceans of units, how large are your chips?, slither of a name challenge and more
What colour is the dress? Here's why we disagree
Science explains why the internet is split over the colour of a dress – and what it could tell us about our internal biases
Treating inherited disease could start in the womb
Experiments in mice suggest that treatment of haemophilia could be more successful if the baby's immune system is primed while in the womb
Programmable pop-up materials can morph on command
Sheets of programmable matter can be made to pop into complex 3D shapes 100 times taller than their original thickness when heated, and could find uses in medicine
Kitchen-table physics lets you do big science at home
Five groundbreaking experiments for a low-tech lab: from a solar storm detector in a jam jar to a Large Hadron Collider in your salad bowl
Britons may have imported wheat long before farming it
The discovery of DNA in the southern part of the UK from what appears to be ancient wheat flour hints at a trade in what would have been a prestigious food
Future-predicting neurons discovered in the brain
Brain cells that help us predict the intentions of others before they've actively made a decision have been discovered in monkeys
The Nether: Real morality for a virtual world
A new play uses the idea of paedophilia in a simulated reality to raise tough questions about how we should behave in virtual spaces
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