Health
The books and ideas that will shape the year ahead
From human evolution to genetics, neuroscience to cosmology, Â鶹´«Ã½ picks the books to look out for in 2018
Culture
Health
It’s never too late to get a tattoo, an implant – or new senses
Culture
Earth
Our lust for tastier chocolate has transformed the cocoa tree
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Health
One-off CRISPR treatment slows genetic hearing loss in mice
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Environment
The holly hunters banking berries to save a species
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Life
Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis
Features
Environment
The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears
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Life
2018 preview: Thousands of mystery lifeforms to be revealed
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Humans
What do the new ‘gay genes’ tell us about sexual orientation?
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Life
Lizards re-evolved eggs after thousands of years of live births
It’s an evolutionary U-turn: a group of egg-laying lizards evolved from live-bearing ancestors, which are in turn descended from even older egg-layers
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Earth
Sumatran tigers fall 17 per cent and have just two strongholds
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Life
Why do female monkeys spend so long looking at rugged males?
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Humans
A bacterium has been engineered to make ‘unnatural’ proteins
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Life
Does it matter if my child is not genetically related to me?
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