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Ice-age nettles may survive in dark Chinese caves

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Ice-age nettles may survive in dark Chinese caves

Walk into a cave in south-west China and you could be stepping back 30,000 years – they could be a time capsule preserving rare nettles from the last ice age

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Health

Secrets of immunity earn medicine Nobel prizes

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The vast Asian realm of the lost humans

Life

The vast Asian realm of the lost humans

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Eating your greens alters your genes

Life

Eating your greens alters your genes

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Spies could hide messages in gene-modified microbes

Life

Spies could hide messages in gene-modified microbes

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Zoologger: Stealth millipede wears living camouflage

Life

Zoologger: Stealth millipede wears living camouflage

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Huge Australian bushfires ignited rare plant growth

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Huge Australian bushfires ignited rare plant growth

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Brainy molluscs evolved nervous systems four times

Life

Brainy molluscs evolved nervous systems four times

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Life

Artificial cells made to reproduce thanks to DNA

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Life-like cells are made of metal

Life

Life-like cells are made of metal

A chemist intent on proving metal-based life is possible has produced cell-like bubbles from metal oxides

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Earth

Virus gene engineer sends caterpillars to a sticky end

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Life

Premature baby brains can't tell pain from touch

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Life

Stem cells may save rhinos from extinction

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Earth

Evolutionary theory can make street life better

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