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A study of adaptive immunity in sea lampreys — a type of jawless vertebrate from which jawed vertebrates diverged around 500 million years ago — has shown the evolution of a common solution to the ...

In 1869 an innovative new material was created: plastic. Initially envisioned as a substitute for ivory in making billiard balls, the versatility of this new material has seen it applied to almost ...