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Meet your maker: Homing in on the ancestor of all life

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Meet your maker: Homing in on the ancestor of all life

What was the last shared ancestor of all life like? How did it make its living? A radical new answer could explain some of the most mysterious features of life

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Let the sunshine in: We need Vitamin D more than ever

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Let the sunshine in: We need Vitamin D more than ever

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Who's flying this thing? End in sight for pilots

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Who's flying this thing? End in sight for pilots

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Where the wild things are: Big beasts return to Europe

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Where the wild things are: Big beasts return to Europe

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Ghost of the cloud forest: Seeking the white possum

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Ghost of the cloud forest: Seeking the white possum

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Einstein's perfect theory: General relativity rebooted

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Einstein's perfect theory: General relativity rebooted

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Heart attack on a plate? The truth about saturated fat

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Heart attack on a plate? The truth about saturated fat

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Rogue waves: The real monsters of the deep

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Rogue waves: The real monsters of the deep

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Your third hand: Why tongues have the mouse licked

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Your third hand: Why tongues have the mouse licked

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California's Katrina? The great delta dilemma

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California's Katrina? The great delta dilemma

Drought is not the only threat to California's water supply – the state's single biggest source of water is a catastrophe waiting to happen

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Physics

Quantum split: Particle this way, properties that way

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Life

Seaweed supper: recipes for a three-course meal

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Turing's oracle: The computer that goes beyond logic

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Space

White holes: Hunting the other side of a black hole

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