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The findings also cast the humble single-cell creatures in a new, more tantalizing light: They are not merely molecular machines packed in microscopic bodies, but they are also agents that can learn.

Shahida describes how she crossed the English Channel on an inflatable dinghy, packed in with 64 people.

“The paint was packed,” she said, “so it let me step out a little more.”

“It will be cool seeing the whole crowd and everything, cool seeing the stadium be packed out,” he said.

Going by the number of lawyers packed into the Court of Session in Edinburgh this week, it must be a decent amount.