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Chemical controllers: How hormones influence your body and mind
Does testosterone make men bald? Is there a love hormone? Do pregnancy hormones turn your brain to mush? Â鶹´«Ã½ sifts the facts from the fiction
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Penguin tail feathers reveal secrets of where they swim for food
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Humans
Memo to all tech bros: Sexism, not biology, holds women back
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Genetically engineered salmon goes on sale for the first time
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Parasitic worm eggs may soon be legally sold as food in Germany
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Life
Bees are first insects shown to understand the concept of zero
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Lazy ants lay eggs for their industrious sisters to eat
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Space cucumbers may help plants grow better water-seeking roots
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First results from US CRISPR gene editing on human embryos
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On the trail of dragons with blood that can save people’s lives
The gigantic Komodo dragons of Indonesia have been known to kill people – but their blood is rich with peptides that may destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria
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Jellyfish blooms linked to offshore gas platforms and wind farms
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Flatworms can still ‘see’ even after they are decapitated
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Tardigrade genomes help explain how they survive without water
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Clinic ‘turkey baster’ method may be worth trying before IVF
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