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Why did evolution stall during the ‘boring billion’?
About 1.7 billion years ago, evolution seemed to grind to a halt, but a long time later it kicked in with a vengeance – plate tectonics may explain why
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Environment
Extreme hygiene: Cleaning a hippo’s mighty molars
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Life
The bacteria that chat back and tell you how they are
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Health
Weird thought-generator: How society’s fears shape OCD
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Earth
Aliens versus predators: The toxic toad invasion
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Life
One rule of life: Are we poised on the border of order?
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Synthetic biology gets reborn as an aesthetic dream
Culture
Tech breakthroughs mean all can be differently abled
Opinion
Deaf people get gene tweak to restore natural hearing
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Why we get autism but our Neanderthal cousins didn’t
First maps of gene expression in Neanderthals and Denisovans could explain why they looked different from us – and why autism may be unique to humans
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Earth
Virtual Earth plays out fate of life on the planet
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Environment
Flesh-eating sponges are beautiful but deadly
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Life
The coolest biology is under the microscope
Culture
Stem cells debacle: Obokata admits enhancing images
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