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  The cheerleader effect: how you can look good in a group

  5 Nov 2013: People apparently look more attractive when seen with others than when viewed as individuals, so get yourself a band

• How I feel when scientists examine the wagging of dogs' tails

  1 Nov 2013: Michele Hanson: Researchers are discovering what pet owners already know – that humans don't have a monopoly on emotions and complex communication

• Jealousy: it's in your genes

  1 Nov 2013:

  Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman: The green-eyed monster may be hardwired into our DNA, but there is a lot we can do to keep it under control

• Dogs communicate different feelings with right or leftward tail wagging

  31 Oct 2013: A dog can distinguish a happy, friendly pooch from an anxious, threatening one from the way it wags its tail

• Halloween witch: is a travel sickness drug behind flying broomstick myth?

  31 Oct 2013:

  Corrinne Burns: Scopolamine, an ingredient of over-the-counter remedies, could be at the root of stories about witches riding broomsticks

• How many more new species are left to discover?

  30 Oct 2013: The discovery of new species in relatively well-explored Australia leads Karl Mathiesen to investigate how many other natural wonders may exist unknown to science

• Life in close-up: photomicrography competition winners - in pictures

  Gallery (13 pictures), 30 Oct 2013:

  Nikon has announced the winners of its 2013 Small World Photomicrography Competition. Winning images were selected for displaying artistic quality and scientific technique

• The mystery of the toad in the tin

  29 Oct 2013:

  Country diary: Wenlock Edge: This tiny amphibian was on its first migration to find a safe haven for the winter when it was toadnapped, I guess

• My best science lesson: dissecting cow brains to explore intelligence

  Guardian Professional, 29 Oct 2013:

  Seeing my year 4s, dressed in white lab coats, scalpels in hand was quite an unforgettable experience – for me and them, writes Thomas Henley

• Raw carrots good, cooked carrots bad: our fickle food tastes

  29 Oct 2013:

  From almonds to tomatoes, we often love one version of a food (ketchup) and hate another (raw slices). Amy Fleming looks at the science behind our preferences

• The return of the delicate flapwort

  28 Oct 2013:

  GrrlScientist: This is the story of how our hero, Richard Carter, joined forces with a local botanist to hunt down the elusive, rare and very tiny delicate flapwort!

• Gecko that looks like a leaf among new species found in Australia's 'lost world'

  28 Oct 2013:

  Scientists have found three new vertebrate species isolated for millions of years in a rainforest in far north Queensland

• Big nanotech: an unexpected future

  28 Oct 2013: Eric Drexler: How we deal with atomically precise manufacturing will reframe the future for human life and global society

• Grow Your Own: where scientists and artists are shaking up creation

  28 Oct 2013:

  From armpit brie to banana flavoured E.coli, artists and bio-hackers have teamed up to push the frontiers of 'synthetic biology' in a new exhibition. By Oliver Wainwright

• Alzheimer's study reveals new genes implicated in disease

  27 Oct 2013:

  Largest study yet into genetics of Alzheimer's disease identifies double the previous number of genes associated with disorder

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