Environment
Kitchen counter bio-lab lets you make edible gloop from cells
A coffee machine pod-like system can synthesise food from packaged pods of plant cells. The system could let us make our own jam from weird and exotic plants
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Female birds that used to be silent are now singing like males
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Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour
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Oysters can 鈥榟ear鈥� the ocean even though they don鈥檛 have ears
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Humans
What the controversial 鈥榟uman鈥� teeth fossils really tell us
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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction
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Songbird gets angry when its rivals are brilliant at singing
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Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too
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Museum safari: The myriad unknown species lost in dusty drawers
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Life
The bourgeois biologist who sparked Russia’s genetics revolution
Russia's 1917 revolution put Nikolai Koltsov in a deadly predicament, pursuing world-leading genetics research with Lenin's secret police breathing down his neck
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Health
Too much information? The data-driven future of health
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Humans
Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends
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Environment
Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals
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Environment
Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process
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