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How to save ourselves from the invisible gas choking us to death

Cities are battling to meet legal standards for air pollution, but even that isn't enough to make air safe, says Michael Le Page

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Lab mice are sending us on a wild goose chase

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HIV jumped to the US in 1970 - 10 years before it was spotted

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Xudong Wang holds a piece of his energy-generating board in a lab

Technology

Energy-generating floorboard lights up 35 LEDs with one footstep

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How I got addicted to painkillers

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How I got addicted to painkillers

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Addiction to prescription drugs is UK 'public health disaster'

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Iceland drills hottest hole to tap into energy of molten magma

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Iceland drills hottest hole to tap into energy of molten magma

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An e-reader screen the size of a Post-it note with a white border stands on a desk

Technology

E-paper display runs on office lights and never needs charging

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Humans

An enormous shape-shifting artwork – run by yeast

Culture

Capuchin monkey hits stone with stone

Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

Capuchins make stone flakes that could be mistaken for hominin tools, but they do so by accident in search of mineral dust they lick, perhaps as a medication

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Humans

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

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The price of my life: $1.6 million and counting

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What are you worth? How we calculate the value of a life

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Life

Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize

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