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A paean to plants: The story of botany at Kew gardens

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A paean to plants: The story of botany at Kew gardens

Some may still see it as a Cinderella science, but botany flowers magnificently in Plants: Roots to riches and the accompanying 25-part BBC Radio 4 series

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Three-parent babies: It's more messy than we thought

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Three-parent babies: It's more messy than we thought

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Was Aristotle the inventor of science?

Was Aristotle the inventor of science?

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Possessed! The powerful aliens that lurk within you

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Possessed! The powerful aliens that lurk within you

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Meet the ancient megatrees of arid lands

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Meet the ancient megatrees of arid lands

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Human 'language gene' makes mice smarter

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Human 'language gene' makes mice smarter

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Fish that picks its work partners wisely

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The go-between: Life's unexpected messenger

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The go-between: Life's unexpected messenger

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Fungal fix for UK's Himalayan balsam problem

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Beautiful but doomed: Demise of the passenger pigeon

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Beautiful but doomed: Demise of the passenger pigeon

Hubristic humans should heed the tale of the passenger pigeon's demise, recounted by three books published on the centenary of its extinction

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Last Word

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Swelling Australian cities harbour ever bigger spiders

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