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RNA molecules

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What is RNA?

RNA (ribose nucleic acid) is a complex molecule that plays a big part in living cells.

Bill Bryson on the miraculous human body

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Bill Bryson on the miraculous human body

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Nature versus nurture

Eugenics

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Eugenics

Chromosomes

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Chromosomes

Sick woman with headache with motion sickness.

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Motion sickness

fin whale

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An injured fin whale with no tail has been found in the Mediterranean

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Why icy moons like Europa are our best bet for finding alien life

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Why icy moons like Europa are our best bet for finding alien life

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Squid

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Genetically altered human cells can vary their transparency like squid

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The strange physics of why blue jays look blue even though they aren't

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The strange physics of why blue jays look blue even though they aren't

Watching birds is great entertainment, and there's fascinating physics behind how some get their colours, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Algae transplant could protect coral reefs threatened by warming seas

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Kelp is coming: How seaweed could prevent catastrophic climate change

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What is life and how did it evolve? We're getting closer to the answer

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What lies beneath: diving to the UK’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef

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