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Rooted in experience: The sensory world of plants
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Plant senses: Sight
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Plant senses: Touch
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Plant senses: Smell
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Plant senses: Taste
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Plant senses: Hearing
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Health
The workout pill: Why exercise is the best medicine
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Space
Space cubed: Dawn of the nano-sats
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Humans
Let’s get lost: Apps that help you wander to happiness
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News
Higgs boson faces the perils of predictability
The newly discovered boson is behaving more and more like the particle physicists predicted – reducing the chances that it will reveal new physics
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Curiosity ready to roll, right after target practice
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Lowest US carbon emissions won’t slow climate change
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Life
Mass cellphone spamming sparks huge exodus in India
News
Earth
Los Angeles smog thins, but remains a threat
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NASA decides to send robotic seismologist to Mars
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60 Seconds
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Health
Epidemic of plain packaging to curb smoking uptake
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Space
Galactic ‘axis of asymmetry’ threatens cosmic order
News
Books and JavaScript stored in DNA molecules
News
Health
Threatwatch: West Nile – what is the actual risk?
News
Health
Older fathers pass on more mutations
News
Health
First non-hormonal male ‘pill’ prevents pregnancy
News
Space
Jet-set young sun pushed baby planets off kilter
News
Health
Scientific explanation of psychopathy cuts jail time
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Humans
Bonobo genius makes stone tools like early humans did
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Earth
DNA could have existed long before life itself
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Environment
Almost toothless rodent survives on soft prey
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Life
Aphids may be first photosynthesising animal
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Environment
Citizens know best when it comes to animal protection
News
Environment
Zoologger: Cultured killer whales learn by copying
News
Health
Familiar music could help people with brain damage
News
Quantum ‘alphabet’ easier to read with laser boost
News
Physics
‘Eye bath’ to thank for quantum vision in birds
News
Humans
Brain anatomy can reveal your age
News
Health
Watson turns medic: Supercomputer to diagnose disease
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Technology
Artificial intelligence fights notorious crop pest
News
Humans
Boo! Robots learn to jump like frightened mammals
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Technology
Bendy battery lets you wear gadgets’ power supply
News
Opinion
The all-time greatest popular science books
We're asking for your votes to help us decide which popular science books have done the most to transform public thinking
Opinion
Health
Encourage everyday exercise, not sporting elites
Opinion
Health
Biotech is thrusting us into new political territory
Opinion
Physics
Can cold fusion research survive pioneer’s death?
Opinion
Earth
Even greener alternative: Energy from algae
Opinion
Features
Life
Rooted in experience: The sensory world of plants
There are vegetable versions of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch – and they're remarkably similar to our own
Features
Life
Plant senses: Sight
Features
Life
Plant senses: Touch
Features
Life
Plant senses: Smell
Features
Life
Plant senses: Taste
Features
Life
Plant senses: Hearing
Features
Health
The workout pill: Why exercise is the best medicine
Features
Space
Space cubed: Dawn of the nano-sats
Features
Humans
Let’s get lost: Apps that help you wander to happiness
Features
Culture
Space
A desolate vision of the future of Mars exploration
See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog
Culture
Humans
Consciousness as the key to our mental traits
Culture
The most influential science book of all time?
Culture
Come back, parasites, all is forgiven
Culture
The science behind our weirdest behaviours
Culture
Science’s greatest critic is no mood to recant
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