Nature versus nurture
Are we shaped more by our genes or the environment in which we grow up and live? The truth involves both – and is a lot more complicated than we thought.
Eugenics
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’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef
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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
We knew that some fish glowed when placed under certain lights, but researchers have now shown that many amphibians can also shine bright
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Technology
Cyborg grasshoppers have been engineered to sniff out explosives
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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