Earth
Dragonfly wings inspire micro wind turbine design
The way a dragonfly remains stable in flight is being mimicked to develop micro wind turbines that can withstand gale-force winds
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Earth
The selfish metaphor: Conceits of evolution
Opinion
Environment
Lost islands of the crows revealed in DNA study
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Earth
How the seahorse gained its shapely body
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Life
Did pterosaurs fly out of their eggs?
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Life
Need a new metabolic pathway? Steal a few genes
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Earth
Polygamy boosts mouse sperm fitness
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Life
New dinosaur adds to the mystery of Triassic Park
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Humans
Neanderthals’ ugly faces weren’t adaptations to cold
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Technology
Metamorphosis key to creating stable walking robots
Robots that mimic frogs by changing their body plan with time stand up to being pushed around
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Environment
Hipster bird species evolving to tune out urban sounds
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Earth
Ammonites’ strict diet doomed them to extinction
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Life
Uncertainty principle: How evolution hedges its bets
Features
Life
Cluster model shows how first cells could have divided
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