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The hunt for the world's most wanted vaccines

Health

The hunt for the world's most wanted vaccines

We still don't have vaccines for the world's biggest killers. But vaccinologists are hot on the trail

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Everest's final frontier: Life without oxygen

Earth

Everest's final frontier: Life without oxygen

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Beautiful freak in Ecuador's life raft of the frogs

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Beautiful freak in Ecuador's life raft of the frogs

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Careless farming could cost us benefits of GM crops

Opinion

Ötzi the iceman's cells show battle brain damage

Life

Ötzi the iceman's cells show battle brain damage

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Super-pests are fighting back against killer crops

Earth

Super-pests are fighting back against killer crops

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Cod comeback as North Sea stocks start to recover

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Cod comeback as North Sea stocks start to recover

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UK medical research must not be a victim of austerity

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Do glowing house plants take gene tinkering too far?

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Do glowing house plants take gene tinkering too far?

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Hungry algae may explain how plants became green

Life

Hungry algae may explain how plants became green

Over a billion years ago, the ancestors of plants ate bacteria and gained a crucial new ability. A tiny alga with a mouth could show how they did it

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Dawn of the water eaters: How Earth got its oxygen

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Life

A biological basis for free will

Opinion

Life

Our earliest primate cousin discovered in Asia

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Life

Finding the players in the symphony of IQ genes

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