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Technology

How Tesla's batteries can change the solar power game

Elon Musk's takeover of SolarCity can give solar power the efficiency boost it needs – letting rooftop panels pipe cheap energy onto the grid

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Speedy cannabis spit test could spot people driving while high

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Whales dive slower and feed less in response to shipping noise

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Whales dive slower and feed less in response to shipping noise

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Just a few hours’ exercise a week makes your heart grow bigger

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Just a few hours’ exercise a week makes your heart grow bigger

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Baby monkeys smile in their sleep - more so than human babies

Life

Baby monkeys smile in their sleep - more so than human babies

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Space

Iridium: story of a communications solution no one listened to

Culture

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There could already be 40,000 people carrying Zika in the US

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High Court backs campaign to fund preventative HIV drug on NHS

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High Court backs campaign to fund preventative HIV drug on NHS

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Travel warnings for pregnant women

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Pregnant women travel warning as Florida Zika cases rise to 14

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Huge boom in teen HIV cases could cause epidemic to spiral

Many teens with HIV in South Africa have had the virus all their lives. Initiatives are now springing into action to help prevent further teen infections

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Technology

Bacteria made to turn sewage into clean water – and electricity

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Life

Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time

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Zika epidemic could burn out in 3 years but return after 10

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Earth

Sanders turns the heat up to make Clinton a real climate champ

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