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Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

Life

Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

Most molecules exist in mirror-image forms, and yet life prefers one over the other. How this bias began and why it persisted is one of the most baffling questions in biology – but now we have an answer

Features

The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

Life

The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

Features

Bats

Life

Bats can learn to copy sounds and it may teach us about human speech

News

Great Barrier Reef coral

Environment

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread bleaching yet

News

Glowing frog

Life

It turns out loads of frogs and salamanders are fluorescent

News

Cyborg grasshopper

Technology

Cyborg grasshoppers have been engineered to sniff out explosives

News

Teen born without half her brain has above average reading skills

Humans

Teen born without half her brain has above average reading skills

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Horseshoe bat

Health

Coronavirus: Why infections from animals are such a deadly problem

News

Health

A radical idea suggests mental health conditions have a single cause

Features

brittle star

Life

Some starfish-like animals see without eyes by changing body colour

Some brittlestars, close relatives of starfish and sea urchins, can work out where light is coming from by changing the colour of their bodies

News

Earth

The best new books, films and games to enjoy in 2020

Culture

Life

As our oceans become more acidic they may corrode the skins of sharks

News

Life

The torrid secret lives of truffles make Game of Thrones look tame

Features

Video

The genetic revolution: Can we predict school performance from DNA?

Video

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