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Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare?

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Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare?

Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects help to explain the success of an array of puzzling health treatments

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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

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Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

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Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

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First test of CO2 removal with green sand finds no harm to marine life

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Biologist John Craig Venter poses for a photo inside a Reuters studio in New York's Times Square May 26, 2010. Venter is president of the J. Craig Venter Institute, which conducts research in synthetic biology and the human genome. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCI TECH SOCIETY)

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The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter

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Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave

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Life

First glimpse of sperm whale birth reveals teamwork to support newborn

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UK-Spanish partnerships are solving pharma’s toughest challenges

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UK-Spanish partnerships are solving pharma’s toughest challenges

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The best new popular science books of February 2026

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The best new popular science books of February 2026

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Lichen: Image made using visible light (sun or Xenon flash), the two

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How lab-grown lichen could help us to build habitations on Mars

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the buildings of the future

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Health

A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping cure deadly diseases

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Life

Sperm are selfish – and so are we

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This book is a great insight into the new science of microchimerism

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Toxic algae blighting South Australia could pose a global threat

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