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Your personal cloud of microbes can be used to identify you

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Your personal cloud of microbes can be used to identify you

When a person enters a house, they leave behind a unique set of microorganisms that could serve as a fingerprint – and it seems to be accurate enough to spot individual people

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Kidney cancer cells

Health

Kidney cancer spreads by pretending to be white blood cells

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The most elusive whales reveal their secrets in their wakes

Life

The most elusive whales reveal their secrets in their wakes

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Model Behaviour: How a sceptic was won over by life in the lab

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A fetus in the womb

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Faulty placenta may explain why some people get schizophrenia

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Chimp evolution was shaped by sex with their bonobo relatives

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Chimp evolution was shaped by sex with their bonobo relatives

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World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran

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World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran

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Micrograph of sperm

Health

Changes in your sperm reveal if you’ve had a difficult life

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Chinese giant salamanders may already be virtually extinct

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Chinese giant salamanders may already be virtually extinct

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Lizards keep evolving toxic green blood and we don't know why

Life

Lizards keep evolving toxic green blood and we don't know why

All the green-blooded lizards in the world live in New Guinea, but it turns out the trait has evolved there independently at least four times

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Life

A new synthetic molecule may solve a paradox about life's origin

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Humans

Can CGI finally convince us that Neanderthals were smart?

Culture

Humans

Stem cells may reveal how Neanderthal DNA works in modern humans

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Earth

A plague from South Korea is killing frogs and toads worldwide

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