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Life
Weird ways that animals experience the world differently to us
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Health
Smart probiotics: Wiring friendly bacteria to take out disease
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Environment
Spider Santa: Nicer gift-wrap, better sex
Features
Environment
Invisible: The high-vis trick that blinds the eye
Features
Earth
Scared to death: How intimidation changes ecosystems
Features
Health
Sleeper cells: How to fight bacteria that play dead
Features
Health
Dark side of the love hormone
Features
Humans
Lost treasures: Peking Man’s bones
Features
Life
Patchwork people: Our hybrid origins
Features
Earth
Magnetovision: Birds’ seventh sense revealed
Features
Life
Dangerous DNA: The truth about the ‘warrior gene’
Features
Health
DNA’s guardian gene found in placozoans
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