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Earth
Throwaway culture: The truth about recycling
Features
Environment
Sunflowers work together to avoid overcrowding and soak up rays
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Earth
Living with climate change: You can make a difference
Features
Life
Bacteria release aphrodisiacs that put others in mood for sex
News
Life
Why be conscious: The improbable origins of our unique mind
Features
Life
Resurrected gene allows time travel to an Earth before oxygen
News
Space
Martian life must be rare as free energy source remains untapped
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Life
Synthetic genes can make weird new proteins that actually work
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Life
We could detect alien life by finding complex molecules
News
Humans
Love your anthropological collection? Then hand it back
Culture
Environment
How dogs are helping decode the genetic roots of personality
Features
Life
Five designer chromosomes bring synthetic life a step closer
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