Filaments swarm and swim in circles
Experiment puts collective-motion models to the test
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Controlling heart beats with lasers
Bird heart experiment brings optical pacemakers a step closer
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Drab butterfly reveals its hidden colours
Optical effect that could lead to novel colour-changing surfaces
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Scientists cast a fly’s eye
New technique mimics insect corneas
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Urban cool: how to make cities less hot than their surroundings
Summer in the city can be stifling, but appropriate surfaces and vegetation can cool us off, says Roland Ennos
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Damage limitation
Treating tumours with hadrons rather than X-rays has many benefits for patients, as John Gordon explains
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Finding the secrets of life
Michael P H Stumpf recalls the life of DNA pioneer Francis Crick
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Graphene soaks up arsenic
'Wonder material' could help purify water
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Birds flock with scale invariance
Scientists ponder the statistical mechanics of the Roman sky
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Sharks hunt via Lévy flights
Marine predators trawl the deep blue in predictable patterns
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