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Humans
Babies bond better with strangers when they can smell their mother
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Health
Genetically engineered bacteria could heal us from inside our cells
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Life
We can now bioengineer catnip instead of extracting it from plants
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Life
Plant gene has naturally crossed into insects – and helps them feed
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Earth
RPS Science Photographer of the Year winners and runners up announced
Culture
Life
Water may be even more crucial to life than we thought
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Life
Why don’t wildebeest have wheels? Exploring the limits of evolution
Features
Life
Toads on tropical islands are rapidly shrinking as they evolve
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Health
Magnetic levitation can be used to separate the living from the dead
A form of magnetic levitation can separate living and dead cells, which could help in everything from drug discovery to tissue engineering
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Blood
Natural selection
What is RNA?
Health
Bill Bryson on the miraculous human body
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