Zika virus panic spreads

Twenty countries affected, some propose radical measures

Mortality rates in working Americans on the rise

Women and adults without diploma the worst hit

Clue found to strange link between swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy

The immune system may have misidentified a protein in the vaccine

Bad bug

Pine beetles make water quality dip in North America

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Zika virus spreads further, reaches China

Patient is a 34-year-old male who had visited South America

Politics of business

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Blame it on future tense

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NYT’s faulty posture

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For love of books

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Caught in green web

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Origin of child birth

Junk DNA, the precursor of modern mammalian pregnancy

Sign of times

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Bean beauty

Semantic divide

Whimper for the buck

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Hike in soy production in Brazil linked to higher child cancer deaths, finds study

Notes rise in pesticide use with soy expansion; timely mitigation mitigated link between expansion and cancer incidences

The Amazon’s tallest tree just got 50% taller – and scientists don’t know how

At 88m tall, it dwarfs the previous record holders by almost 30 m

Climate denier’s ally

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From oil to electric: The new energy powerplay and China's growing dominance

China is the largest producer and importer of rare-earth minerals

'40 per cent of all US food goes uneaten'

An American throws away, on average, 9 kg of food per month

New meat culture

Engineered meat is peeping out of the labs

A trip down memory lane

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