Eugenics
Eugenics is the highly controversial idea that humanity could be improved by controlling who can produce children and pass on their genes
Motion sickness
Life
Genetically altered human cells can vary their transparency like squid
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Life
The strange physics of why blue jays look blue even though they aren’t
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Life
What is life and how did it evolve? We’re getting closer to the answer
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Environment
What lies beneath: diving to the UK鈥檚 answer to the Great Barrier Reef
Video
Life
Life’s other mystery: Why biology’s building blocks are so lop-sided
Features
Life
Bats can learn to copy sounds and it may teach us about human speech
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Life
It turns out loads of frogs and salamanders are fluorescent
News
Technology
Cyborg grasshoppers have been engineered to sniff out explosives
The super-sensitive smelling ability of American grasshoppers has been used to create biological bomb sniffers, which could prove useful for security purposes
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Humans
Teen born without half her brain has above average reading skills
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Health
Coronavirus: Why infections from animals are such a deadly problem
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Health
A radical idea suggests mental health conditions have a single cause
Features
Earth
The best new books, films and games to enjoy in 2020
Culture