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Nature's strangest families: Why animals adopt

Life

Nature's strangest families: Why animals adopt

Forget altruism and good intentions, in nature adoption is a cut-throat business involving deception, mistaken identity, posturing and offspring on the make

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Nettling conundrum

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Nettling conundrum

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Bionics man offers a taste of our cyborg future

Health

Bionics man offers a taste of our cyborg future

Opinion

Home, sweet exomoon: The new frontier in the search for ET

Life

Home, sweet exomoon: The new frontier in the search for ET

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Living lasers made by injecting oil droplets into human cells

Technology

Living lasers made by injecting oil droplets into human cells

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Everything you need to know about lactose intolerance

Health

Everything you need to know about lactose intolerance

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Semen has controlling power over female genes and behaviour

Life

Semen has controlling power over female genes and behaviour

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Dig up the truth

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Health

Poultry question

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Head and body lice splice their identical genes differently

Head lice are harmless and body lice spread disease, yet they have the same genes - the difference is all in the way they splice them together

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Life

Two dolphin species band together to form unprecedented alliance

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Humans

After the crash, can biologists fix economics?

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Humans

Sexuality is fluid – it's time to get past 'born this way'

Opinion

Life

Train your brain for better hearing

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