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Richard Faragher: Can you live forever?

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Richard Faragher: Can you live forever?

Can we live beyond 120 – and would we want to? These are no longer abstract questions, says gerontologist Richard Faragher

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Life

We've added letters to the genetic code – and the results are amazing

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Three Identical Strangers review: a good film about bad science

Health

Three Identical Strangers review: a good film about bad science

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Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

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Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

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Mitochondria in a cell

Humans

Some rare fathers pass on an extra kind of DNA to their children

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ants

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Sick ants stay clear of their co-workers to stop disease spreading

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Monica Gagliano

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To truly blossom, science requires some unorthodox thinkers

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Monica Gagliano

Life

Smarty plants: They can learn, adapt and remember without brains

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37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body

Life

37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body

The workings of the myriad cells that make us are a huge mystery. A vast new project is changing that – and bringing sweeping insights into how we live and die

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Judith Mank: Why do we have sex?

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Life

Life may have begun with cells made wholly from simple proteins

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Environment

Dynasties review: Attenborough’s latest special focuses on real drama

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Venki Ramakrishnan: The giant gene-translating machine

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