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Tiny, bat-winged dinosaur sheds light on the origin of flight © Chung-Tat Cheung

Tiny, bat-winged dinosaur sheds light on the origin of flight

Meditation can have a dark side © Getty Images

Meditation can induce feelings of fear

Royal jelly vaccines may help to stop the decline of honey bees © Getty Images

Royal jelly ‘vaccines’ may help to stop the decline of honey bees

Keep calm, the dog-tor will see you now © Getty Images

Keep calm, the dog-tor will see you now

Eating insects could help us to save the planet © Getty Images

Eating insects could help us save the planet

Caffeine can pep up the performance of solar cells © Getty Images

Caffeine can pep up the performance of solar cells

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When it comes to sharing, wolves give dogs a bad name

Breastfeeding gives babies a brain boost © Getty Images

Breastfeeding gives babies a brain boost

Dogs can sniff out lung cancer with nearly 97 per cent accuracy © Getty Images

Dogs can sniff out lung cancer with nearly 97 per cent accuracy

Killer whales' taste for shark liver send great whites fleeing in terror © Getty Images

Killer whales’ taste for shark liver sends great whites fleeing in terror

Artificial Intelligence creates never-ending death metal © Getty Images

Artificial Intelligence creates never-ending death metal

Oldest-ever liquid blood found in 42,000-year-old ice age horse

Oldest-ever liquid blood found in 42,000-year-old ice age horse

Professor Philip Piper from the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology inspects the cast of a hominin third metatarsal discovered in 2007. The bone is from a new species of hominin © Lannon Harley, ANU

New species of tiny hominin discovered in the Philippines

'Sewing machine’ robot paves the way for brain computers © Getty Images

‘Sewing machine’ robot paves the way for brain computers