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- New device modulates light and amplifies tiny signals
- Mark Zuckerberg says fixing Facebook’s data scandal will “significantly impact” its profitability
- Urban growth leads to shorter, more intense wet seasons in Florida peninsula
- Tiny nanomachine successfully completes test drive
- First human migration out of Africa more geographically widespread than previously thought
- Substance that guides ant trail is produced by symbiotic bacteria
- Scientists decry lack of science in ‘forensic science’
- An oil-eating bacterium that can help clean up pollution and spills
- Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, unless you are an app developer
- Facebook may stop the data leaks, but it’s too late: Cambridge Analytica’s models live on
- Uber acquired a dockless bike firm, but has a hard ride ahead of it
- Spoken language reveals how people develop and mature
- Ultra-powerful batteries made safer, more efficient
- Why some beetles like alcohol
- 23andMe says consumer genetics will be the next at-home pregnancy test
- Giant ichthyosaur is one of largest animals ever
- Removing the brakes on plant oil production
- Why the Tasmanian devil might be more susceptible to transmissible cancers
- Shaking up megathrust earthquakes with slow slip and fluid drainage
- Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution
- Solid research leads physicists to propose new state of matter