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The 10,000-year bender: Why humans love a tipple

Earth

The 10,000-year bender: Why humans love a tipple

Our taste for alcohol results from an evolutionary tussle between humans and yeast – one in which the microbes have often had the upper hand

Features

First farmers' trash put wolves in the doghouse

Life

First farmers' trash put wolves in the doghouse

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To spot a fit partridge, check its fractal necklace

Life

To spot a fit partridge, check its fractal necklace

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Lingering kiss: DNA persists in the mouth after smooch

Life

Lingering kiss: DNA persists in the mouth after smooch

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David Attenborough

Life

David Attenborough: Animals are a source of infinite fascination

Opinion

Genes from nowhere: Orphans with a surprising story

Life

Genes from nowhere: Orphans with a surprising story

Features

Why trees can't grow taller than 100 metres

Life

Why trees can't grow taller than 100 metres

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Straitjacket drug halts herpes virus's escape stunt

Life

Straitjacket drug halts herpes virus's escape stunt

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DNA 'identichip' gives a detailed picture of a suspect

Life

DNA 'identichip' gives a detailed picture of a suspect

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Life will find a way, even in the midst of a hurricane

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Life will find a way, even in the midst of a hurricane

Not for the faint-hearted: to sample the microbiome of a hurricane, fly a jetliner through it

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Life

Smartphones make identifying endangered animals easy

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Earth

Why we called off hunt for ancient Antarctic life

Opinion

Life

Wolves bite back in the human world

Regulars

Life

Sperm dance to calcium's tune en route to egg

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