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Thomas the roboboat

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Thomas the marine engine set to explore UK ocean fronts

The hotspots of biodiversity where bodies of saltwater meet are poorly understood. Now a robotic boat and its submarine buddy are set to change that

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Gut bacteria influence the birth of new brain cells in mice

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Gut bacteria influence the birth of new brain cells in mice

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A grey and white porpoise lying on a pebbly beach

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UK's harbour porpoise strandings linked to rising starvation

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Trees at night

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Trees seen resting branches while ‘asleep’ for the first time

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Cancel the Olympic Games in Brazil because of Zika? No way

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Cancel the Olympic Games in Brazil because of Zika? No way

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Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

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Building blocks of life's first self-replicator recreated in lab

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Got dandruff? The bacteria living on your head might be to blame

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Got dandruff? The bacteria living on your head might be to blame

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Super-salty Turkish lakes may hold key to spotting life on Mars

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Super-salty Turkish lakes may hold key to spotting life on Mars

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A pic of okenia rosacea, which is an inch long pink sea slug, covered in tentacles, looking a bit like a sea anemone or a pink mophead

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North Pacific's sea slug invasion linked to mystery ocean blob

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Let people most affected by gene editing write CRISPR rules

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Let people most affected by gene editing write CRISPR rules

At a human gene editing summit in Paris today, scientists, ethicists and lawyers made the case for those affected by gene editing to call the shots

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Environment

Massive new coral reef discovered at Amazon river mouth

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Life

The story of Dolly is about us as much as cloning

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Humans

Meet our hybrid ancestors who kept extinct humans' DNA alive

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Earth

How two tiny dots defy the history of life and the solar system

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