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biology

The body: Can you eat yourself to death?

Humans

The body: Can you eat yourself to death?

What happens when you take "all you can eat" all too literally – and how do competitive eaters stretch the limits of their stomachs?

Features

The body: Your nose knows more than you think

The body: Your nose knows more than you think

Features

The body: The great skin safari

Life

The body: The great skin safari

Features

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World's largest nests are socialist bird collectives

Regulars

Hammerhead sharks are winners of wildlife trade meeting

Earth

Hammerhead sharks are winners of wildlife trade meeting

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Neanderthals may have swapped social lives for big eyes

Life

Neanderthals may have swapped social lives for big eyes

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Craig Venter close to creating synthetic life

Life

Craig Venter close to creating synthetic life

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Cloning record broken – next up clones from faeces

Life

Cloning record broken – next up clones from faeces

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Gang of chimpanzees kills their alpha male

Life

Gang of chimpanzees kills their alpha male

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Tiny monkey teeth suggest Flores hobbit was a dwarf

Life

Tiny monkey teeth suggest Flores hobbit was a dwarf

Parallels with pygmy marmosets suggest that Homo floresiensis could be a distinct dwarf species rather than an unusual form of our species

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Health

Hours after death, we can still bring people back

Opinion

Life

Bunnies implicated in the demise of Neanderthals

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Life

First mind-reading implant gives rats telepathic power

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Life

Old dog tricks: The survival of the friendliest

Opinion

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