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Cheetahs win races on acceleration but not speed

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Cheetahs win races on acceleration but not speed

High-tech collars fitted on wild cheetahs reveal what is really required to be a winner on the African savannah

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Vaccine research gets a shot in the arm

Vaccine research gets a shot in the arm

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Careless farming could cost us benefits of GM crops

Opinion

Ötzi the iceman's cells show battle brain damage

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Ötzi the iceman's cells show battle brain damage

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Super-pests are fighting back against killer crops

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Super-pests are fighting back against killer crops

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Cod comeback as North Sea stocks start to recover

Earth

Cod comeback as North Sea stocks start to recover

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Health

UK medical research must not be a victim of austerity

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Do glowing house plants take gene tinkering too far?

Earth

Do glowing house plants take gene tinkering too far?

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A biological basis for free will

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A biological basis for free will

Opinion

Our earliest primate cousin discovered in Asia

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Our earliest primate cousin discovered in Asia

55 million-year-old Archicebus is the oldest primate skeleton found, the closest we've come to discovering our origins, and suggests we evolved in Asia

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Hungry algae may explain how plants became green

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Life

Dawn of the water eaters: How Earth got its oxygen

Features

Life

Finding the players in the symphony of IQ genes

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Portrait of shy seal in underwater forest wins contest

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