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Do the huge craters pockmarking Siberia herald a release of underground methane that could exceed our worst climate change fears? (full text available to subscribers)

In Lyon, France, cosmetics company L'Oreal is growing human skin. Each year, some 60 scientists cultivate 100,000 paper-thin skin samples in nine varieties simulating different ages and ethnicities--and then they...

Their evolutionary arms race is a wonder to behold, but the UK's cuckoos are vanishing at an alarming rate, says zoologist Nick Davies (full text available to subscribers)

(University of Queensland) Cough treatments could change dramatically after the herpes virus helped researchers discover that the respiratory tract links to two different parts of the nervous system.