Health
How our bodies are rapidly colonised by bacteria when we’re born
We鈥檝e had the best look yet at the microbes that make themselves at home in our bodies in the months following birth, including many mystery species
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First evidence that gut bacteria help wire young brains
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Life
These eerie rock towers may have been built by microorganisms
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Herpes viruses in the brain linked to Alzheimer鈥檚 disease
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A huge number of mystery microbes are living on your skin
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Life
Bacteria may survive temperatures hot enough to melt lead
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Parkinson鈥檚 disease may be caused by virus that kills gut bugs
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Humans
Your personal cloud of microbes can be used to identify you
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Earth
Lizards keep evolving toxic green blood and we don’t know why
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Earth
Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early
Earth鈥檚 air suddenly got a lot more oxygen around 1.6 billion years ago and that could have triggered the evolution of large multicellular organisms
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Life
Species with big sex differences are more likely to die out
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Earth
Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth
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Earth
Medicine for sick koalas turns out to actually kill them
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A high fibre diet helps treat diabetes by changing gut bacteria
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