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I told AI to make me a protein. Here’s what it came up with

Who were the ancient Denisovans? Fossils reveal secrets about the mysterious humans

How much ultra-processed food do you eat? Blood and urine record it

A human-specific enhancer fine-tunes radial glia potency and corticogenesis

Daily briefing: The world’s first human bladder transplant

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Philanthropic funders: team up to jump-start innovative science

Who were the ancient Denisovans? Fossils reveal secrets about the mysterious humans

Turning the tide on ocean conservation

How ‘organized looting and plunder’ drove Britain’s second scientific revolution

I told AI to make me a protein. Here’s what it came up with

How much ultra-processed food do you eat? Blood and urine record it

Bird-flu vaccine for cattle aces early test

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Does lightning make trees swish?

Mother–infant bonds in wild chimpanzees resemble those of humans

Immune control of metastatic cancer at the edge of the central nervous system

Black hole fly-by modelled with landmark precision

Black hole flings out clumps of gas

Track record: unexpectedly early reptile claw prints found

Genomes from a four-generation family reveal the rate of new mutations

Marsupial embryos lack the epigenetic reset seen in placental mammals

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