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Health

It's never too late to get a tattoo, an implant – or new senses

From altering your body, enhancing your senses or improving cognitive function, you need to be a risk-taker to plug into the dark arts of body modification

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Cocoa pods

Earth

Our lust for tastier chocolate has transformed the cocoa tree

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Health

One-off CRISPR treatment slows genetic hearing loss in mice

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Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

Features

chocolate Santas

Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

Features

microbial growths

Life

2018 preview: Thousands of mystery lifeforms to be revealed

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Life

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

Features

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Humans

What do the new ‘gay genes’ tell us about sexual orientation?

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Lizards re-evolved eggs after thousands of years of live births

Life

Lizards re-evolved eggs after thousands of years of live births

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Sumatran tigers fall 17 per cent and have just two strongholds

Earth

Sumatran tigers fall 17 per cent and have just two strongholds

There are now only two viable populations of Sumatran tigers left in the wild, so if the cats are to be saved those areas have to be protected

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Life

Why do female monkeys spend so long looking at rugged males?

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Humans

A bacterium has been engineered to make 'unnatural' proteins

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Life

Does it matter if my child is not genetically related to me?

Features

Humans

Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart

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