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Epic history of light reveals the universe peaked 10 billion years ago
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Some spiders produce milk – and it’s more nutritious than cow’s milk
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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa
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Stone Age people may have ritually cut off their own fingers
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The gene editing revelation that shocked the world
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Gene-editing experiment widely criticised for safety and ethics issues
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