Health
Fine flavours: The unsuspected talents of your taste buds
Japanese flavour sensation kokumi shows that our favourite sense goes way beyond salt, sweet, bitter and sour. We've even found taste sensors in the lungs and testicles
Features
Life
What if … We learn to talk to animals?
Features
Humans
What if … We don’t need bodies?
Features
Earth
Secret ecosystem found on hills deep beneath the ocean’s surface
News
Mutation alert halts stem cell trial to cure blindness
News
Life
Nature’s strangest families: Why animals adopt
Features
Life
Home, sweet exomoon: The new frontier in the search for ET
Features
Health
Bionics man offers a taste of our cyborg future
Opinion
Health
Living lasers made by injecting oil droplets into human cells
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Health
Everything you need to know about lactose intolerance
Not everyone who consumes milk regularly can digest it, and people who think they are lactose intolerant may not be. Â鶹´«Ã½ puts things in perspective
Features
Humans
Sexuality is fluid – it’s time to get past ‘born this way’
Opinion
Humans
After the crash, can biologists fix economics?
Features
Humans
Semen has controlling power over female genes and behaviour
News
Head and body lice splice their identical genes differently
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