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Monk Seal, Monachus monachus, Alonissos Island, GreeceMonk seal, Monachus monachus, which enters and swims in the sea. Endangered species. Alonissos Island, Sporades Islands, Greece (Photo by Cristian Umili/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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Ancient Romans may have triggered decline of the world’s rarest seals

Populations of Mediterranean monk seals began shrinking when seafaring civilisations expanded around the Mediterranean basin

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A dolphin rubs against medicinal coral

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Dolphins queue up to rub against corals with antibacterial properties

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How to make your own yogurt

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Colony of Streptomyces coelicolor

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A soil bacterium forms multicellular organisms with specialised roles

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Vaquita or Gulf of California Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena sinus), caught as by-catch, Baja California, Mexico, critically endangered species

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Vaquitas could breed their way back from the brink of extinction

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Huge flightless swan roamed the ancient seas with a cradle on its back

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Huge flightless swan roamed the ancient seas with a cradle on its back

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How the ‘blue acceleration’ is supercharging ocean exploitation

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How the ‘blue acceleration’ is supercharging ocean exploitation

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Goonhilly Earth Station

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Group that wants to contact aliens will transmit to TRAPPIST-1 system

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Anchovies

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Anchovies stirring up the sea may be influencing ocean mixing

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The FRAMe Project functional model in comparison to the Fragment A visual and the AMRP X-Ray images. The central large gear-b1 with the four arms is visible. The Fragments of the Mechanism are exhibited in National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Greece.

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Ancient computer may have had its clock set to 23 December 178 BC

The Antikythera mechanism, often called the world’s first computer could calculate the timing of cosmic events – and now we may know the date it was calibrated to

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��è��Ƶs want to play chess with aliens as soon as we can find them

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We must recognise science’s unsung global pioneers to alter its future

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How to perform the culinary technique of spherification at home

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Watch first video of a possible rare sponge reef found near California

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