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Hundreds of thousands of slime moulds can merge together to find food
These strange, mushroom-like structures are the reproductive phase of a type of slime mould, complex amoebae that feed on bacteria on forest floors
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First life on Earth may actually have been built from both RNA and DNA
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What is life and how did it evolve? We’re getting closer to the answer
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Earth’s first life may have fuelled itself with a metal metabolism
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The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses
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Life’s other mystery: Why biology’s building blocks are so lop-sided
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First self-replicating molecules may have had just two ingredients
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Uploading your brain will leave you exposed to software glitches
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AI genome scanner says Denisovans could live until 38 years old
Artificial intelligence may be able to work out the maximum lifespans of extinct species and early humans. The technique relies on analysing specific regions of DNA that are linked to ageing
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Extinction is a fact of life. Could we stop it – or even reverse it?
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Predators may make prey get smart and grow more brain cells
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Life may have begun with simple genes made out of urine
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The key to a long life may be genes that protect against stress
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