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biology

True's beaked whale

Life

First-ever underwater video of the elusive True's beaked whale

The deep-water whale spends most of its life on hour-long dives kilometres below the ocean surface. The new footage is a step towards understanding them better

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Bomb crater pond

Life

WW2 bomb craters are a home to rare and vulnerable animals

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Artificial mouse embryo

Health

Artificial embryo grown in a dish from two types of stem cells

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Elephants sleep for just 2 hours a day – the least of any mammal

Life

Elephants sleep for just 2 hours a day – the least of any mammal

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Extinct squid relative

Life

Squid evolved in marine wars more than 100 million years ago

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Fingernails on a blackboard

Life

The feeling you get when nails scratch a blackboard has a name

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Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are

Life

Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are

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Altruism

Life

Does a networked world need a new approach to doing good?

Leader

great auk

Life

Resurrecting nature: Extinct is not forever

Features

octopus

Life

The 1830s seamstress who solved Aristotle’s octopus mystery

Ladies weren’t supposed to do experiments out at sea. That didn’t stop Jeanne Villepreux-Power from solving an ancient mystery about the argonaut's shell

Features

Life

Mystery eye disease is latest blow for Australia’s sick turtles

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Life

Big builder ants and tiny guard ants live together in one nest

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Life

Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

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Life

Can we grow woolly mammoths in the lab? George Church hopes so

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