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Virus gene engineer sends caterpillars to a sticky end

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Virus gene engineer sends caterpillars to a sticky end

With one gene, a virus compels its caterpillar hosts to climb to the tops of trees, deliquesce and fall as a rain of viral particles on healthy caterpillars

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Life

Premature baby brains can't tell pain from touch

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Stem cells may save rhinos from extinction

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Stem cells may save rhinos from extinction

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Evolutionary theory can make street life better

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Oldest reliable fossils show early life was a beach

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Oldest reliable fossils show early life was a beach

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Technology

Internet databases reveal new uses for old drugs

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Reverse evolution: Chicken revisits its dinosaur past

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Reverse evolution: Chicken revisits its dinosaur past

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Plants and fungi share fair-trade underground market

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Plants and fungi share fair-trade underground market

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First life: The search for the first replicator

Life

First life: The search for the first replicator

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Bacterial 'wires' an electronic dream

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Bacterial 'wires' an electronic dream

Hair-like threads sticking out of some species of bacteria may hold the secret to more powerful electronics and circuits that work underwater

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Life

Multicellular yeast shrug off freeloading mutants

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Life

Heat-seeking vampire bats have a trick in their pits

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Life

The end of ageing: Why life begins at 90

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Life

Shark researcher: A great white landed in my boat

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