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marine biology

How a tiny fly can ‘scuba dive’ in a salty and toxic lake

Life

How a tiny fly can ‘scuba dive’ in a salty and toxic lake

Alkali flies plunge into the salty and alkaline Mono Lake, to feed and lay their eggs, but until now it has been unclear how they manage to survive

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Scorpion

Life

Venom: The show with an unsettling sting in its tale

Culture

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Humans

Why the male infertility crisis could be good news for women

Leader

Josiah Zayner

Humans

Biohackers are using CRISPR on their DNA and we can't stop it

Insight

man and baby

Health

We're heading for a male fertility crisis and we're not prepared

Features

porpoise

Life

Porpoises twist laws of physics to aim their focused sonar beams

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Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

Earth

Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

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Crab eating bird

Life

Giant coconut crab sneaks up on a sleeping bird and kills it

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Boy who had skin graft playing football

Health

Boy with a genetic disease has had almost all his skin replaced

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Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

Life

Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

The animals were as good as humans at recognising mugshots of the same celebs from different angles, showing sophisticated brain processing of imagery

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Earth

Planting trees could mop up ten years’ worth of greenhouse gases

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Life

Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day

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Health

Blood cells in chronic fatigue syndrome are drained of energy

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Earth

The latest science reads remind us why we really do need experts

Culture

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