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marine biology

Horses remember if you smiled or frowned when they last saw you

Life

Horses remember if you smiled or frowned when they last saw you

Horses can remember the expressions on people’s faces and use them to make judgements about whether people are nice or unpleasant

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Landscape

Earth

Acid lakes may be a false alarm but we can’t afford complacency

Leader

blossom

Life

Blossoms: The complex secrets of spring’s simple beauty

Culture

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Humans

Origin of our species: Why humans were once so much more diverse

Features

Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we're to blame

Earth

Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we're to blame

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Ants build a medieval ‘torture rack’ to catch grasshoppers

Life

Ants build a medieval ‘torture rack’ to catch grasshoppers

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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

Life

Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

Life

Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

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Trees may have a ‘heartbeat’ that is so slow we never noticed it

Life

Trees may have a ‘heartbeat’ that is so slow we never noticed it

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Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them

Earth

Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them

Most plants were expected to grow more as CO2 levels rise, but a 20-year experiment suggests that the extra CO2 is somehow stunting plant growth, which could make climate change worse

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Life

Male fruit flies feel pleasure when they ejaculate

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Life

Flies cool themselves down by constantly blowing bubbles of spit

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Life

UK failing child refugees because we can’t reliably verify age

Insight

Earth

Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’

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