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Do spiders survive if thrown from a height out of a window?

John Allen,

Canterbury, Kent, UK

If identical twin brothers are each potentially the father of the same child, is there a way to determine, genetically, which is the father?

Darryl Middleton,

Melbourne, Australia

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