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Keep your hair on - A gene offers hope to the follicularly challenged

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Far from the madding cows . . . - Don't throw away that gunk at the bottom of the tube—it could turn prions into the good guys after all. Jonathan Knight reports

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Light relief - How your skin could help beat the winter blues

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Talking point - Chimps' gestures may have more meaning than we realised

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Whisky galore - Reconditioned casks are the key to a more mature flavour

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Deadly start

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Gutsy ancestors

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Supermouse liberates its pals from the lab

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Ticking over nicely - In fruit flies and humans, myriad clocks seem to mark time

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Boom time for beetles - Homes that shrink and grow can drive insect populations sky high

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Hey, good looking - Male horseshoe crabs only have eyes for the females

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Sleeping Beauty awakes

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