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Petri dish

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Life and death caught in Petri dishes in a nod to the art of mortality

This stunning image of Petri dishes full of butterfly wings, mushrooms, moss, glass and metal by Suzanne Anker is a modern reworking of paintings designed to remind us that life is vanity

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skull artwork

Life

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

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life artwork

Life

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

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DNA cartoon

Technology

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

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Duchenne smile

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Duchenne smile

leaf-like rangeomorphs

Life

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

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Paul Rudd as Miles Elliot in Living With Yourself

Life

Netflix’s Living With Yourself shows the dangers of perfectionism

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Biochemistry

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Biochemistry

aeronauts film poster

Life

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

Life

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

Seven Worlds, One Planet, David Attenborough’s stunning celebration of Earth’s biodiversity, prepares a new generation to save a beautiful world

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Life

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

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Humans

Bill Bryson's new book celebrates the miraculous human body

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Life

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

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People in Science

Gregor Mendel