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Why the line between life and death is now more blurred than ever

Brains resurrected after death, communications with people in comas and advances in cryogenics all suggest that life's end is less final than we thought

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Why the hunt for alien life is under way far beneath Earth's surface

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Why US police could be using your genes to profile you right now

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The bizarre plant-like animals that say life’s big bang never happened

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Netflix’s Living With Yourself shows the dangers of perfectionism

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Don't miss: Risky flights, idiotic experiments and the secrets of life

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David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

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David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

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Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage

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Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage

New book Ahab's Rolling Sea highlights our destructiveness as it teases fact from fiction in Moby-Dick, the obsessive hunt for a great white whale

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Bill Bryson's new book celebrates the miraculous human body

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Don't miss: the art of science, vanishing cetaceans and edited humans

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Microplastics may stop hermit crabs from choosing the best home

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