Earth
Scientists won’t stop discovering stuff, no matter what
2016 often felt like a jaw-dropping year where the unexpected and impossible kept on happening. Welcome to our world, say scientists
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Super-you: The mutant powers you get from outsider genes
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Health
Every 50 cigarettes smoked cause one DNA mutation per lung cell
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Humans
Kuwait lawyers fight world’s first mandatory DNA sampling law
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Physics
Send secret messages hidden in the DNA of bacterial spores
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Life
Fluorescent jellyfish proteins light up unconventional laser
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Life
Life may have emerged not once, but many times on Earth
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Earth
First Americans must have arrived by sea, not via Alaska
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CRISPR genome editing could save sight by tweaking DNA
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Humans
You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that make you human
Genes make proteins make us – that was the received wisdom. But from big brains to opposable thumbs, some of our signature traits could come from elsewhere
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Environment
DNA sequencing turns rivers into ecosystem surveillance systems
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Bacterial RNA-editing tool could disable viruses or halt disease
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Humans
Meet our hybrid ancestors who kept extinct humans’ DNA alive
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Humans
The 4 genetic traits that helped humans conquer the world
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