Environment
Bug to spider: I will control your offspring’s sex
Famed for ruthless reproductive strategies, female spiders are in fact mere puppets in the hands of a parasitic bug that kills off their embryonic sons
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Environment
Workhorse of biology gets a virus 鈥� that’s good news
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Life
Need a new metabolic pathway? Steal a few genes
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Health
Faecal transplant eases symptoms of Parkinson’s
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Earth
Slime moulds bet the farm on survival
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Life
Cluster model shows how first cells could have divided
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Life
Cheeseology: How to throw the perfect bacterial party
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Health
Taboo transplant: How new poo defeats superbugs
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Life
Live wires: The electric superorganism under your feet
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Earth
Life is found in deepest layer of Earth’s crust
An expedition to the deepest layer of the Earth's oceanic crust has revealed an ecosystem living over a kilometre beneath our feet
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Health
Whip-tailed bacteria could ‘tweet’ to nanobots
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Life
Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku
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Life
Telltale bacteria could reveal time of drowning
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Life
Giant virus with tiny victims carries a monster genome
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