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Making babies: How to create human embryos with no egg or sperm

Artificial wombs and embryos made from skin cells – remarkable new techniques could revolutionise reproductive biology and help bring an end to infertility

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Wasps drum with their stomachs to tell each other about food

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Wasps drum with their stomachs to tell each other about food

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Palm trees have been spotted changing sex for the first time

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Palm trees have been spotted changing sex for the first time

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Biology's moonshot: The mission to decode the DNA of all life

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Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs

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Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs

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Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef

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Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef

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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

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The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease

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The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease

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Dog brain scans show if they are looking at a happy or sad face

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Dog brain scans show if they are looking at a happy or sad face

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How birds focus even with eyes on opposite sides of their heads

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How birds focus even with eyes on opposite sides of their heads

Birds find it difficult to fix their gaze on an object, because their eyes don’t face forwards, but one species has found an ingenious solution

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Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation

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Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too

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Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR

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A very pregnant female ray had to fend off four courting males

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