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David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

Life

David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

Seven Worlds, One Planet, David Attenborough’s stunning celebration of Earth’s biodiversity, prepares a new generation to save a beautiful world

Culture

Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage

Life

Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage

Culture

Bill Bryson's new book celebrates the miraculous human body

Humans

Bill Bryson's new book celebrates the miraculous human body

Culture

philosopher giving lecture

Life

Don't miss: the art of science, vanishing cetaceans and edited humans

Culture

Gregor Mendel

People in Science

Gregor Mendel

A hermit crab

Life

Microplastics may stop hermit crabs from choosing the best home

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Hans Christian Gram: The biologist who helped investigate bacteria

Health

Hans Christian Gram: The biologist who helped investigate bacteria

Regulars

coral spawning

Environment

Coral reefs are now spawning out of sync and might fail to reproduce

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great barrier reef

Environment

Great Barrier Reef now has 'very poor' outlook due to climate change

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woman with chocolate

Health

People who are naturally slim have smaller and more active fat cells

Some people can eat as much as they like without putting on weight because their fat cells burn extra energy by continuously making and breaking fat molecules

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Come down to 51¶¯Âþ Live 2019 at London's ExCel today

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Life

Don't miss: Curative comedy, cultural copies and an unlikely fish diet

Culture

Humans

Biologists have a problem with homosexuality – they should get over it

Comment

Life

Bees' very hairy tongues help them mop up different types of nectar

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