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A red knot, which is brown, on the shoreline, with a white clam in its bill

Earth

Earlier ice melt in the Arctic cuts survival of birds in Africa

Red knots are one of many animals shrinking in the face of climate change. This downsizing affects their feeding ability and means fewer survive

News

Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

Life

Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

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skeleton in graveyard

Life

A history of love, art, power and religion in 10 graves

Features

human and dog skeletons

Life

Lovely bones: Fascinating skeletons of the past and present

Culture

Three skulls, black background

Humans

Game of bones: first Europeans' shifting fortunes found in DNA

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Humans

Thou shalt not tell us how to behave any more

Leader

confession

Humans

Why are religions so judgemental? Ask evolution

Features

Lizard on reddish wall

Life

Lizard gets to grips with city life by evolving stickier feet

News

A pygmy bushtit

Environment

Smallest perching bird’s long-lost family revealed by genetics

News

The yellow blooms of a flowering mustard plant

Life

Plants may form memories using mad cow disease proteins

Prion proteins are infamous for their role in mad cow disease, but they also help yeasts form memories. They have now been discovered in plants

News

Earth

Inside the lost cave world of the Amazon's tepui mountains

News

Humans

The 4 genetic traits that helped humans conquer the world

Features

Humans

Meet our hybrid ancestors who kept extinct humans' DNA alive

Features

Life

Missing building block of life could be made on ice in space

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