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cell biology

Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

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Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

The first evidence of organic material on Ceres opens the door to the possibility that other asteroids harbour precursors to primitive life

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Woolly mammoth

Life

Can we grow woolly mammoths in the lab? George Church hopes so

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A man looking exhausted

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Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome

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cock-eyed squid

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Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down

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Volunteers attending to stranded whales in New Zealand, 10 February 2017

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400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach

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New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride

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New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride

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Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline

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Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline

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Dolphins playing with hoops

Life

Synchronised swimming seems to make dolphins more optimistic

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Boat on dried-up lake floor

Life

Massive lake drained for hydropower leaves dry bed and no fish

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Bear confronts wolf carrying prey

Life

Why grey wolves kill less prey when brown bears are around

We’ve long assumed wolf packs are forced to kill more often to make up for having meals stolen by scavenging bears – but the opposite is true, they kill less

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Life

Bird lookouts make alarm calls to save themselves, not the group

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Earth

Ocean acidification may be good for thriving marine snails

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Life

Carnivorous plants repurpose stress genes to digest their prey

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Health

Drug stops nasty chemotherapy side effects in mice with cancer

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