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Most creatures start ageing and eventually die after they reach sexual maturity - but why? (Credit: Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images)
Ask a Stupid Question

Why do we die?

By William Park

Our bodies are made up of a patchwork of different cells that make up our tissues and organs, but we have no idea what most of them do (Credit: Getty Images)
Comment & Analysis
How a cell atlas might change medicine
By Daniel Davis
A bronze T. rex skeleton at the Museum of the Rockies, Montana (Credit: Alamy)
Dinosaur
The mystery of how dinosaurs had sex
By Zaria Gorvett
A man hikes beneath giant Sequoia trees (Credit: Jordan Siemens/Getty)
Future Planet
Why the world's tallest trees are dying
By Jim Robbins
Glowee grows the marine bacterium Aliivibrio fischeri in salt water and a mix of nutrients – the bacteria glow when they are given oxygen (Credit: Glowee)
Sustainability
The French town where lights are alive
By Peter Yeung
Is Alzheimer's triggered by infection? (Credit: Getty Images)
Biology
Do dormant microbes cause Alzheimer's?
By David Robson
There are some researchers who claim that plant communication may be far more sophisticated than many believe (Credit: Guido Mieth/Getty Images)
Plant
Are plants talking to us?
By Chris Baraniuk
Microscope view of protein (Credit: Christoph Burgstedt/SPL/Getty Images)
Biology
Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life
By Michael Marshall
Colombian jungle and hills (Credit: Sergio Fabara)
Best of BBC Future
The pristine jungle cut off by war
By Jose Luis Penarredonda
Calorie restriction involves a permanent reduction in a diet (Credit: Getty Images)
In Depth
The secret to a long and healthy life?
By Alex Riley
Vegetables and pickle jar (Credit: Getty Images)
Microbes and Me
Eating your way to a healthy gut
Future
In sun-baked deserts of Namibia, fossils are showing clues as to what life would have looked like before the Cambrian Explosion (Credit: Getty Images)
Biology
What did the earliest life look like?
By Jasmin Fox-Skelly
Mosquito feeding (Credit: Getty Images)
Ask a Stupid Question
Do mosquitoes get drunk?
By Stephen Dowling
Vegan burger (Credit: Getty Images)
Microbes and Me
Veganism: the key to good gut health?
By Jessica Brown
Artists impression of gut flora (Credit: Getty Images)
Microbes and Me
What we know about gut health
By Jessica Brown
Probiotics magnified (Credit: Getty Images)
Biology
The health-giving life inside us
By Stephen Dowling

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