Environment
Trees may have a 鈥榟eartbeat鈥� that is so slow we never noticed it
Trees repeatedly move their branches up and down during the night, and this may reflect water being pumped along the branches 鈥� just like a human pulse
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Environment
Flies cool themselves down by constantly blowing bubbles of spit
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Environment
These fish hide fluorescent switchblades in their faces
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Life
Species with big sex differences are more likely to die out
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Earth
Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity’s path out of Africa
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Earth
The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease
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Earth
Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth
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Environment
Why ancient deer returned to the sea and became whales
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Humans
Our ancestors mated with the mystery ‘Denisovan’ people 鈥� twice
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Technology
8 hilarious ways AI has outsmarted us to get the job done
Artificial intelligence does the funniest things. A new crowd-sourced list tells the times when AI did the unexpected
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Environment
Dinobird Archaeopteryx only flew in short bursts like a pheasant
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Humans
The Strange Order of Things: How we feel our way to being human
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Humans
Dark DNA: The missing matter at the heart of nature
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Life
Fossil shows a parent caring for its young 520 million years ago
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