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Clucking hell: The nightmare world without chickens

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Clucking hell: The nightmare world without chickens

Riots, pandemics, starvation – if this humble bird disappeared, we would be in big trouble. So how likely is chickageddon?

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IVF nutrients may dictate if the baby's a boy or girl

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IVF nutrients may dictate if the baby's a boy or girl

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Pregnancy belt for lifelogging in the womb

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Pregnancy belt for lifelogging in the womb

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Feathered apes who say thanks with shiny trinkets

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Feathered apes who say thanks with shiny trinkets

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Editing human embryos is genetics' new battleground

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Editing human embryos is genetics' new battleground

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Preying alone

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Chance: The importance of randomness in evolution

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Chance: The importance of randomness in evolution

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Optic aquatic

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Sunfish and sharks get the Body Worlds treatment

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Sunfish and sharks get the Body Worlds treatment

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Modified <i>E. coli</i> spin fibres as tough as spider silk

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Modified E. coli spin fibres as tough as spider silk

Bacteria with added spider genes have made molecules that can be combined to create strands that are less strong but more elastic than a spider's silk

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The skull that chews up theories of human ancestry

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Would you wear yeast perfume? Microbes used to brew scent

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Modified E. coli spin fibres as tough as spider silk

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Angle of dangle

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