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Hans Christian Gram: The biologist who helped investigate bacteria

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Hans Christian Gram: The biologist who helped investigate bacteria

Biologist Hans Christian Gram devised one of the most important staining techniques used in microbiology to identify bacteria under a microscope

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coral spawning

Environment

Coral reefs are now spawning out of sync and might fail to reproduce

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great barrier reef

Environment

Great Barrier Reef now has 'very poor' outlook due to climate change

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People who are naturally slim have smaller and more active fat cells

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Jon Spooner (left) meets Apollo astronaut Al Worden in the Space Shed

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Come down to New Scientist Live 2019 at London's ExCel today

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Biologists have a problem with homosexuality – they should get over it

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Biologists have a problem with homosexuality – they should get over it

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Life

Bees' very hairy tongues help them mop up different types of nectar

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whale shark

Life

Endangered whale sharks strain fish out of the water using huge mouths

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Life

Early life on Earth may have existed as miniature droplets of jelly

Microscopic jelly blobs that form when simple carbon-based chemicals dry out could have been the precursors to the first biological cells on Earth

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Why I’m growing bits of human intestine in a dish in the lab

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Evolution of the eye

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Why do we have sex?

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How did complex life evolve?

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