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biology

A man looking exhausted

Life

Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome

CFS, also known as ME, may be caused by the body switching from fully breaking down carbohydrates to using other energy sources, bringing on pain and exhaustion

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cock-eyed squid

Life

Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down

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Volunteers attending to stranded whales in New Zealand, 10 February 2017

Life

400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach

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New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride

Life

New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride

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Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline

Life

Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline

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Dolphins playing with hoops

Life

Synchronised swimming seems to make dolphins more optimistic

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Boat on dried-up lake floor

Life

Massive lake drained for hydropower leaves dry bed and no fish

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Bear confronts wolf carrying prey

Life

Why grey wolves kill less prey when brown bears are around

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Arabian babbler bird

Life

Bird lookouts make alarm calls to save themselves, not the group

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Some of the turfwinkle snails in their natural habitat

Earth

Ocean acidification may be good for thriving marine snails

Although acidifying oceans are expected to be bad news for marine life overall, tiny snails prove that there will be winners as well as losers

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Life

Carnivorous plants repurpose stress genes to digest their prey

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Health

Drug stops nasty chemotherapy side effects in mice with cancer

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Life

World’s most endangered marine mammal has 30 individuals left

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Life

Ant choosiness reveals they all have different personalities

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