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Insects reveal an alien beauty in huge extreme close-up photos

You have never seen insects in such astounding detail before – each image took the photographer weeks to create from thousands of microscope shots

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Looks like mud pile on some mud, with a couple of tiny spiders quite far away. It's the Arctic sea floor, so not that exciting I guess

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New Arctic life on barren seabed thrives on methane jets

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Frontal view of shark's head in dim conditions with teeth lit

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Mysterious deep-sea sharks biting chunks out of migrating whales

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Hitchin' a ride: Brittle star gets a lift on larger starfish

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Health

In sync: How to take control of your many body clocks

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Woman being sick in the toilet

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Extreme morning sickness? You’re less likely to have a boy

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Bawean warty pig may be world's rarest pig, with only 230 around

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Bawean warty pig may be world's rarest pig, with only 230 around

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Cloud atlas uses satellite data to predict where species live

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Cloud atlas uses satellite data to predict where species live

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Big Ben poppers

Space

Feedback: Poppers burn a hole in the UK's blanket drugs ban

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Life

Human versus pig: Can we outwit the hog hordes?

Feral pigs have ruined crops, dug up cemeteries and even crashed a fighter jet. The challenge: eliminate a foe that's smarter than a chimp and can run at 50 km/h

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Life

Giving mosquitoes chemical weapons helps keep them under control

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Eyeless cave shrimp senses light and can live frozen in ice

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Life

Artificial cell designed in lab reveals genes essential to life

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Life

Small is beautiful: Why a synthetic minimal genome is a big deal

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