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Super-you: Your body is a nation of trillions

Think you’re only human? Legions of creatures inhabit the cracks, contours and crevices of your body — and they all contribute to who you are

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Super-you: The mutant powers you get from outsider genes

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Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

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Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

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Bees of the sea: Tiny crustaceans pollinate underwater plants

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Bees of the sea: Tiny crustaceans pollinate underwater plants

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World's highest plants discovered growing 6km above sea level

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World's highest plants discovered growing 6km above sea level

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Zap to the brain alters libido in unique sex study

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UK’s first three-parent babies likely to be conceived in 2017

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Up close with the giant teeth of the deep-sea fangtooth

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A brightly coloured lionfish

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Polar species spotted in the deep seas of the Mediterranean

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Chest X-ray of a 15 year old female with cystic fibrosis

Life

Making cells ignore mutations could treat genetic diseases

Diseases like cystic fibrosis and some cancers can be caused by mutations that make very short proteins. Changing how cells read the genetic code could help

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Technology

Bacteria taught to bond carbon and silicon for the first time

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Life

Africa’s tallest tree measuring 81m found on Mount Kilimanjaro

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Life

GM mosquitoes approved for field trial release in Florida

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Life

Porpoises plan their dives and can set their heart rate to match

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