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Possessed! The powerful aliens that lurk within you

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Possessed! The powerful aliens that lurk within you

Once they were free-living bacteria, then they hijacked complex cells, now it turns out they have a hand in everything from memory and ageing to obesity

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Human 'language gene' makes mice smarter

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Human 'language gene' makes mice smarter

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The go-between: Life's unexpected messenger

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The go-between: Life's unexpected messenger

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Fish that picks its work partners wisely

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Fungal fix for UK's Himalayan balsam problem

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Beautiful but doomed: Demise of the passenger pigeon

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Beautiful but doomed: Demise of the passenger pigeon

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Eggs-tra shell

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Swelling Australian cities harbour ever bigger spiders

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Swelling Australian cities harbour ever bigger spiders

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Striped sweater

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Meet the lodgers: Wildlife in the great indoors

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Avast! It's a gas-filled blob with a sting in the tail

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Brain drain: Are we evolving stupidity?

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Trippy tots: How to see the world as a baby

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