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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

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The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

Life

The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

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Great Barrier Reef coral

Environment

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread bleaching yet

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Newly discovered species found deep in the ocean contains microplastic

Life

Newly discovered species found deep in the ocean contains microplastic

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The coronavirus owes its name to the crown-like projections that encircle the capsid.

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Viruses

A demon from Doom

Technology

Doom Eternal review: A welcome adrenaline-inducing distraction

Culture

Mars may once have had right conditions for RNA to develop into life

Space

Mars may once have had right conditions for RNA to develop into life

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Solar flares and cosmic rays may make Proxima b warm enough for life

Space

Solar flares and cosmic rays may make Proxima b warm enough for life

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Abiogenesis

Life

First self-replicating molecules may have had just two ingredients

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Uploading your brain will leave you exposed to software glitches

Humans

Uploading your brain will leave you exposed to software glitches

Think a digital version of your mind will allow you to live forever? It might, but it will also open you up to software manipulation and server problems, says Annalee Newitz

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Life

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

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Life

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

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Life

Octopuses were thought to be solitary until a social species turned up

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Life

AI genome scanner says Denisovans could live until 38 years old

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