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A paean to plants: The story of botany at Kew gardens

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A paean to plants: The story of botany at Kew gardens

Some may still see it as a Cinderella science, but botany flowers magnificently in Plants: Roots to riches and the accompanying 25-part BBC Radio 4 series

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Three-parent babies: It's more messy than we thought

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Three-parent babies: It's more messy than we thought

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Human 'language gene' makes mice smarter

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Human 'language gene' makes mice smarter

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The go-between: Life's unexpected messenger

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The go-between: Life's unexpected messenger

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Fish that picks its work partners wisely

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Fungal fix for UK's Himalayan balsam problem

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Beautiful but doomed: Demise of the passenger pigeon

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Beautiful but doomed: Demise of the passenger pigeon

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Swelling Australian cities harbour ever bigger spiders

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Swelling Australian cities harbour ever bigger spiders

Arachnophobes have more reason to steer clear of Australia: as its cities get more built-up, urban spiders are getting larger

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Trippy tots: How to see the world as a baby

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A glorious, comprehensive A to Z of living birds

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Meet the lodgers: Wildlife in the great indoors

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