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The Celtic Explorer research vessel sailing through the ocean

Earth

Take a 360-degree virtual tour of a scientific research vessel

Step into the wet lab, peek inside the chief scientist’s cabin and commandeer the bridge in a unique behind-the-scenes glimpse of Ireland's Celtic Explorer

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cuttlefish being a crab

Life

Watch cuttlefish apparently pretending to walk just like crabs

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Nanoparticles that chat back and forth could dispense medication

Technology

Nanoparticles that chat back and forth could dispense medication

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A snail feasting on the excrement of a sea lily

Life

Sea stars filmed hunting squid and squabbling over eating it

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Hyalinobatrachium yaku is a newly discovered glass frog

Life

See-through frog has heart you can see beating through its chest

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Trump’s budget jettisons ‘irreplaceable’ marine mammals agency

Earth

Trump’s budget jettisons ‘irreplaceable’ marine mammals agency

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A flatworm with a head at each end of its body

Life

Bioelectric tweak makes flatworms grow a head instead of a tail

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Mass landfills are saving endangered vultures from extinction

Life

Mass landfills are saving endangered vultures from extinction

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Damselfish on coral

Life

Fish boost photosynthesis by wafting water around corals

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Hopping miniature parrots suggest how birds first got airborne

Life

Hopping miniature parrots suggest how birds first got airborne

Parrotlets save energy when foraging by jumping from perch to perch with a few wingbeats, a technique that might have predated true flight

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Life

Synthetic biology's ties to our humanity let it elude definition

Culture

Life

Resurrected organisms reveal life’s bare essentials

Features

Life

Corals that grow faster in warm water could beat climate change

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Life

Pregnant rays tangled in trawler nets have small, sickly babies

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