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Biochemistry

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Biochemistry

Biochemistry is the study of the chemicals that make up life and how they behave.

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Life

Don't miss: Risky flights, idiotic experiments and the secrets of life

Culture

David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

Life

David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

Culture

Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage

Life

Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage

Culture

Bill Bryson's new book celebrates the miraculous human body

Humans

Bill Bryson's new book celebrates the miraculous human body

Culture

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Life

Don't miss: the art of science, vanishing cetaceans and edited humans

Culture

Gregor Mendel

People in Science

Gregor Mendel

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Life

Microplastics may stop hermit crabs from choosing the best home

News

Hans Christian Gram: The biologist who helped investigate bacteria

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Hans Christian Gram: The biologist who helped investigate bacteria

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coral spawning

Environment

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

Corals need to spawn within minutes of each other to optimise reproduction – but climate change is causing them to spawn out of sync, threatening their survival

News

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

News

New Scientist Live

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

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Humans

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

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