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Women who are deeply in love lose the nose for men who might compete with the current object of their affections

You might think fish are unaffected by winds and storms, but in fact what ends up on our dinner plates today depends on what the weather was like a few years ago

The odour of disease causes pregnant mice to boost their babies' immunity – it is the first proof that environmental cues detected by a pregnant mother can alter traits in her young

The sharpest infrared picture yet taken of the roiling furnace at the galaxy's centre reveals a new population of massive stars

Waters around 11 Pacific islands will be off-limits to commercial fishing

Simulations show tornadoes must have large water droplets to form

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Normal form of protein linked to neurodegenerative conditions may aid sense of smell

New research may explain why males benefit more from opioid painkillers

Collaborators experience dramatic drop in output that can last decades

Bees protect crops from pests by sound alone

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Intention matters when we hurt others

Deer and insects are a boon for invasive plants

Gallery launches Linz as European City of Culture.

A daily dose of torpor helps desert-dwelling marsupials make it through chilly nights.

A bizarre-looking yet ignored species of land iguana might be one of the earliest examples of species diversification in the Galapagos

Physicists at Indiana University have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of Einstein's theory of relativity known as "Lorentz invariance." If confirmed, the abnormality would disprove the basic tenet that the laws of physics remain the same for any two objects traveling at a constant speed or rotated relative to one another.

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the early part of the 20th Century, Carnegie astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding. The rate of expansion is known as the Hubble constant. Its precise value has been hotly debated for all of the 80 intervening years. The value of the Hubble constant is a key ingredient in determining the age and size of the universe.