Technology
Synthetic membrane could lead to self-replicating artificial cells
A synthetic membrane that contains key proteins used in cell division could one day help artificial cells replicate themselves
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Life
A soil bacterium forms multicellular organisms with specialised roles
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Life
Microbes survive deep below the seafloor at temperatures up to 120掳C
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Life
How the shimmering secrets of iridescence could keep us cool
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Life
Living robots made from frog cells can replicate themselves in a dish
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Earth
Chris Mason interview: Let’s tweak human DNA for life on other planets
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Life
Fairy lantern flower has a gaping ‘mouth’ and saps energy from fungi
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Life
Deepest land-dwelling microbes found at bottom of 5km hole in China
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Environment
Ten conservation success stories when species came back from the brink
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Life
Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet ‘shouldn’t be there’
Biologists say the inadvertent discovery of sea life on a boulder underneath an Antarctic ice shelf and hundreds of kilometres challenges our understanding of how far organisms can live from sunlight.
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Life
Water may be even more crucial to life than we thought
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Life
The curious case of the 鈥済lacier mice鈥� that seem to dance on ice
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Humans
Physics might create a backdoor to an afterlife 鈥� but don’t bank on it
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Humans
How nature, nurture and sheer randomness combine to make a unique you
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