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Culling urban foxes just doesn't work

Earth

Culling urban foxes just doesn't work

Rare cases of foxes biting children cause uproar, but culling won't cut numbers – it is our behaviour that needs addressing, says an ecologist

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Environment

World of life's jewelled beauty in new museum shrine

Regulars

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Life

Tongue-tingling interface lets you taste data

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Earth

Horsemeat scandal should make us rethink how we eat

Opinion

DNA tests can prevent the next horsemeat scandal

Earth

DNA tests can prevent the next horsemeat scandal

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Plants listen more closely to kin than strangers

Life

Plants listen more closely to kin than strangers

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Humans

What we really know about human courtship

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Withering heights: Why animals are shrinking

Earth

Withering heights: Why animals are shrinking

Features

Mind maths: Small world with big connections

Humans

Mind maths: Small world with big connections

Features

Life savings: Inside London's brain bank

Health

Life savings: Inside London's brain bank

Rowan Hooper visits the lab where brains are sliced in search of the underlying mechanisms of multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's

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Life

Open Richard III DNA evidence for peer review

Opinion

Life

Do get mad: The upside of anger

Features

Snow falling on red squirrels in Scotland

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Humans

Mind maths: The sum of consciousness

Features

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