Humans
Key to humanity is in missing DNA
It's not the genes we have, but how we use them. Losing chunks of DNA let our brains grow, got rid of beastly whiskers and made sex more intimate
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Earth
Rare species may be there, even if you don’t see them
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Life
Sweat ducts make skin a memristor
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Earth
Evolution races to keep up with climate change
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Life
Primordial Pac-Man: Oil droplet hints at life’s origin
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Life
Zoologger: Australia’s truly glamorous camper
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Life
First animal to wear exoskeleton armour
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Environment
Do snails dream of slime-covered sheep?
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Environment
How memory power helps bird brains survive the winter
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Health
Abnormalities discovered in stem cells from adults
Mistakes in the chromosome of adult stem cells have been identified, raising fears that tissues made from them would also be abnormal
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Environment
Did modern humans go global twice as early as thought?
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Environment
Workhorse of biology gets a virus – that’s good news
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Earth
How the seahorse gained its shapely body
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Life
Royal rumpus over King Tutankhamun’s ancestry
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