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Secret to tardigrades' toughness revealed by supercomputer simulation

Tardigrades can survive extreme temperatures and the vacuum of space – a supercomputer simulation of the behaviour of 750,000 atoms in and around its DNA help explain why

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cells being levitated

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Magnetic levitation can be used to separate the living from the dead

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Red blood cells (erythrocytes) and white blood cells (leukocytes)

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Blood

giraffes

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Natural selection

RNA molecules

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What is RNA?

Bill Bryson on the miraculous human body

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Bill Bryson on the miraculous human body

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Nature_versus_nature

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Nature versus nurture

Eugenics

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Eugenics

Chromosomes

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Chromosomes

Sick woman with headache with motion sickness.

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Motion sickness

Motion sickness is thought to be connected to our vestibular system – the delicate structure deep inside the ear responsible for balance

Environment

An injured fin whale with no tail has been found in the Mediterranean

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Life

Why icy moons like Europa are our best bet for finding alien life

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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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