Earth
Making life, but not as we know it
Can you create life from scratch using different chemical building blocks to ours? An ambitious new experiment aims to find out, says Katharine Sanderson
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Environment
Bug to spider: I will control your offspring’s sex
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Earth
Dragonfly wings inspire micro wind turbine design
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Earth
The selfish metaphor: Conceits of evolution
Opinion
Environment
Lost islands of the crows revealed in DNA study
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Earth
How the seahorse gained its shapely body
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Life
Did pterosaurs fly out of their eggs?
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Life
Need a new metabolic pathway? Steal a few genes
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Earth
Polygamy boosts mouse sperm fitness
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Life
New dinosaur adds to the mystery of Triassic Park
The Triassic dinosaurs of Argentina were more diverse and abundant than we thought – so why did they take 30 million years to rise to dominance?
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Humans
Neanderthals’ ugly faces weren’t adaptations to cold
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Technology
Metamorphosis key to creating stable walking robots
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Environment
Hipster bird species evolving to tune out urban sounds
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Earth
Ammonites’ strict diet doomed them to extinction
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