Category: Language
People communicating with gestures put objects before verbs, regardless of whether they speak English, Turkish or Chinese.
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Category: Medicine & health
A potential new treatment for anthrax works by gumming up molecular locks on the host's own cells.
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Category: Animals
Unhatched cuttlefish embryos can use visual information from the outside world to fix their later prey preferences
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Category: Animals
Hungry black widows spin deadly death-traps, but well-fed ones change architecture completely in favour of a fortress
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Category: Animals
This is the first experimental evidence of the purpose of calls that crocodiles make within their eggs
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Category: Animals
Two lion populations were hit by epidemics caused by a triple-whammy of drought, viruses and blood parasites.
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Category: Conservation
The Great Barrier Reef's most exploited fish is bouncing back just two years after a fishing ban
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Category: Medicine & health
The structure of a bird flu protein reveals that it's a fluke that Tamiflu actually works
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Category: Neuroscience
Brain scans show similarities in shape and connections between gay brains and straight ones from the opposite sex.
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Category: Animal behaviour
Chimps make distinctive calls during sex and a new study reveals their purpose by considering who's listening
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