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Laura Boness

Diabetes drug makes brain cells grow

A common diabetes drug comes with a useful side effect.

Parkour athletes reveal orangutan’s climbing tricks

Parkour techniques help us better understand the swaying strategies of certain primates.

Our eyes reveal more than we think

When you’re talking to someone, you might ask them to try and remember what they had for breakfast two days ago. As they think back, their eye movements will increase.

Photographing the world’s smallest shadow

How few atoms do we need to cast a shadow?

Diabetes for bees

A bee’s sensitivity to sugar reveals her attitude to food.

Bend it like Beckham…scientifically

The perfect soccer ball kicking formula has been calculated.

Treating depression with daffodils

Wordsworth was right about these flowers.

Gluten-free pasta made from green bananas

This could be a tasty new option for coeliac patients.

Stonehenge: symbol of unification?

Britain’s neolithic people pulled together to build this monument.

Mapping our microbes

They may be small, but they outnumber our cells.

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