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Alcohol improves your sense of smell – in moderation

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Alcohol improves your sense of smell – in moderation

Low levels of alcohol can improve your ability to discriminate between different odours, but be warned, the effect is reversed if you drink too much

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Hungry seals tour offshore wind farms looking for food

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Hungry seals tour offshore wind farms looking for food

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A bird in the hand: The tale of one woman and her hawk

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A bird in the hand: The tale of one woman and her hawk

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Kelp wanted: Pioneering the seaweed farm of the future

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Kelp wanted: Pioneering the seaweed farm of the future

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Spark of life revisited thanks to electric bacteria

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Meet the electric life forms that live on pure energy

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Meet the electric life forms that live on pure energy

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Amphibians' swim stroke has lasted 270 million years

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Amphibians' swim stroke has lasted 270 million years

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World's most endangered seal seen wrestling octopus

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World's most endangered seal seen wrestling octopus

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Famine puts next two generations at risk of obesity

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Famine puts next two generations at risk of obesity

Malnutrition during pregnancy can lead to genetic changes that affect the next generation of mice, and health impacts that linger for two

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Animal tests rise in Britain despite government pledge

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Killer frog fungus could be its own nemesis

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Evolution of placentas upended fish sexual politics

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Should you eat wheat? The great gluten debate

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