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Fire missiles at Mars to find deeply buried life

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Fire missiles at Mars to find deeply buried life

The Exolance project would scatter bunker-busters across the planet to hunt for signs of life in subsurface ice – if they can hitch a ride

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Bee and butterfly drink crocodile tears

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Bee and butterfly drink crocodile tears

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Baboons with pig hearts pave way for human transplants

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Baboons with pig hearts pave way for human transplants

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Blue-footed boogie isn't enough for booby babies

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Blue-footed boogie isn't enough for booby babies

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In the beginning: The story of the embryo

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In the beginning: The story of the embryo

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Stem cell revival: The 1990s are back

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Why did evolution stall during the 'boring billion'?

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Why did evolution stall during the 'boring billion'?

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Extreme hygiene: Cleaning a hippo's mighty molars

Life

Extreme hygiene: Cleaning a hippo's mighty molars

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The bacteria that chat back and tell you how they are

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Weird thought-generator: How society's fears shape OCD

Health

Weird thought-generator: How society's fears shape OCD

From ideas of murder to irrational fears, intrusive thoughts afflict most people. But when David Adam's fear of catching HIV persisted, he developed OCD

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Why we get autism but our Neanderthal cousins didn't

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Deaf people get gene tweak to restore natural hearing

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One rule of life: Are we poised on the border of order?

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Tech breakthroughs mean all can be differently abled

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