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cell biology

Two researchers holding up one of the pieces of rock in question. It has a wavy line on it that represents the putative fossil

Life

Ancient rock formations could be oldest fossils on the planet

Rocks in Greenland that have been preserved for 3.7 billion years show evidence of microbes living in a shallow sea on early Earth

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Endangered dolphin with broken blowhole learns to mouth-breathe

Life

Endangered dolphin with broken blowhole learns to mouth-breathe

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Do women sync up? No, but we can't resist menstruation myths

Health

Do women sync up? No, but we can't resist menstruation myths

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Life

Monster slugs are devouring defenceless baby birds in nests

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future

Humans

We are gods of the future – but what will we do?

Culture

A green, transparent mouse

Life

Mouse's body made entirely transparent to reveal nervous system

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Humans

"Intersex" athlete Caster Semenya rightly free to run at Rio

Comment

A Gonatus squid eating another squid

Life

Deep-sea squid cannibals battle it out in a fight to the death

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Dead carp in a van

Earth

Plan to kill alien carp with herpes could suck life out of river

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Life

Life may have emerged not once, but many times on Earth

Far from being a miracle that happened just once in 4 billion years, life's beginnings could have been so commonplace that it began many times over

Features

Earth

Without oxygen from ancient moss you wouldn't be alive today

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Life

Human-animal chimeras may be key to us living healthier lives

Analysis

Earth

World’s oldest vertebrate is a shark that may live for 500 years

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Life

Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind

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