Environment
Fish hybridise themselves extinct in Alpine lakes
Pollution in Swiss lakes caused fish species to interbreed, wiping out much of the lakes' diversity. The same could happen elsewhere
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Humans
Why we have moral rules but don’t follow them
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Health
Prions point to a new style of evolution
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Life
Russian hot springs point to rocky origins for life
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Humans
First Neanderthal cave paintings discovered in Spain
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Humans
Entire genome of extinct human reconstructed
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Health
Clint Eastwood helps reveal secrets of brain evolution
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Life
Lost treasures: The Maxberg Archaeopteryx
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Humans
Lost treasures: Peking Man’s bones
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Earth
First land plants plunged Earth into ice age
When the first simple mosses colonised the land, they unleashed vast ice sheets and triggered a mass extinction
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Environment
Fossil DNA has clues to surviving rapid climate change
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Health
‘Panic button’ could help cancer defy drugs
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Life
World’s only iridescent mammal is a shiny accident
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Life
One-way evolution: The ladder of life makes a comeback
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