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Renewable oil: Ancient bacteria could fuel modern life

Earth

Renewable oil: Ancient bacteria could fuel modern life

Microbes with tweaked DNA can convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into oil, but will it ever power our cars?

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Rewriting the textbooks: Microscopes without frontiers

Physics

Rewriting the textbooks: Microscopes without frontiers

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Genes, germs and the origins of politics

Earth

Genes, germs and the origins of politics

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Gut reactions: the microbes that make you

Life

Gut reactions: the microbes that make you

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Each human has one of only three gut ecosystems

Life

Each human has one of only three gut ecosystems

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Broccoli helps clear damaged lungs

Health

Broccoli helps clear damaged lungs

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Evolutionary tug of war inside sweet-potato whitefly

Earth

Evolutionary tug of war inside sweet-potato whitefly

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Life

Superbug spreads in Delhi sewers

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Life

Steady beats flashy in evolution death match

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Alien-life claims spark monster mud-slinging

Life

Alien-life claims spark monster mud-slinging

As the scientific community recoils from the latest "close encounter" with ET, Â鶹´«Ã½ asks: what would convincing evidence of alien life look like?

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Health

Can Botox really cure chronic migraine?

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Life

Why some gonorrhoea bacteria are a little bit human

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Life

To boldly sow: Seeding the galaxy with Earthly life

Features

Life

Need a new metabolic pathway? Steal a few genes

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