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An engorged tick

Life

Ticks use sticky pads on their feet to cling on to our skin

Microscopy images reveal how tick parasites use specialised sticky pads and bendable claws to stick to their hosts while they suck blood

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Brain switch in voles makes them fall in love at first sight

Life

Brain switch in voles makes them fall in love at first sight

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The Celtic Explorer research vessel sailing through the ocean

Earth

Take a 360-degree virtual tour of a scientific research vessel

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cuttlefish being a crab

Life

Watch cuttlefish apparently pretending to walk just like crabs

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Nanoparticles that chat back and forth could dispense medication

Technology

Nanoparticles that chat back and forth could dispense medication

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A snail feasting on the excrement of a sea lily

Life

Sea stars filmed hunting squid and squabbling over eating it

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Hyalinobatrachium yaku is a newly discovered glass frog

Life

See-through frog has heart you can see beating through its chest

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Trump’s budget jettisons ‘irreplaceable’ marine mammals agency

Earth

Trump’s budget jettisons ‘irreplaceable’ marine mammals agency

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A flatworm with a head at each end of its body

Life

Bioelectric tweak makes flatworms grow a head instead of a tail

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Mass landfills are saving endangered vultures from extinction

Life

Mass landfills are saving endangered vultures from extinction

Endangered Egyptian vultures thrive near open garbage sites, which have helped some bounce back – but EU regulations threaten to shut the sites down

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Life

Fish boost photosynthesis by wafting water around corals

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Life

Hopping miniature parrots suggest how birds first got airborne

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Life

Synthetic biology's ties to our humanity let it elude definition

Culture

Life

Resurrected organisms reveal life’s bare essentials

Features

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