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Plants ‘see’ underground by channelling light to their roots

Life

Plants ‘see’ underground by channelling light to their roots

Roots of many plants have light receptors, and now we may have discovered why. They seem to channel light underground using stems as fibre-optic cables

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Dead vaquita in net

Life

Last-ditch effort to save the world’s smallest porpoise agreed

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Fish swims to the same nest each year just like migrating birds

Life

Fish swims to the same nest each year just like migrating birds

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Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

Life

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

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Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

Life

Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

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Woman sleeping in meadow

Humans

Why rest and relaxation are such a serious business

Culture

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

Life

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

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Assassin bug hunting a spider

Life

Spider-eating bug muffles web vibrations to sneak up on prey

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A white rodent eating a chocolate snack

Life

Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal

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Is it time to allow more than two parents on birth certificates?

Humans

Is it time to allow more than two parents on birth certificates?

Changing attitudes, surrogacy and reproductive technology mean it's right that England and Wales reconsider the birth-registration law, says Julie McCandless

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Life

Hundreds of endangered wild snow leopards are killed each year

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Life

Hundreds of deep-sea vents found spewing methane off US coast

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Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

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Health

'I had a mail-order abortion': The women forced to go it alone

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