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Wonder what your plants are ‘saying’? Device lets you listen in

Life

Wonder what your plants are ‘saying’? Device lets you listen in

A small device lets researchers, farmers and amateur plant lovers listen in to electrical changes inside their plants – Penny Sarchet tried it out

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Life

Blue jeans frog strikes a dramatic pose in Costa Rica

Regulars

Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone

Life

Rip up the rule book and let NASA's Mars rover check 'life' zone

Comment

Murray Ballard, from the book 'The Prospect of Immortality'

Life

Some people choose to be frozen at death. Here's how it happens

Features

Close-up of a baby green turtle

Life

Watch a baby sea turtle being hypnotised so we can weigh it

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Elderly monkeys choose to have fewer friends – just like us

Life

Elderly monkeys choose to have fewer friends – just like us

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New life form discovered in saliva is linked to human disease

Life

New life form discovered in saliva is linked to human disease

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Life

US gives cautious go ahead to controversial gene drives

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Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

Life

Is NASA doing enough to look for alien life?

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Hormone injection lets ageing muscles run harder and longer

Health

Hormone injection lets ageing muscles run harder and longer

A bone hormone that boosts the amount of fuel available to the muscles can give old mice the ability to run as far as young ones

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Life

Doing it froggy style: Kermit Sutra’s seventh position revealed

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Earth

Artificial dome world set for largest indoor weather experiment

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Health

If antidepressants don't work well, why are they so popular?

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Health

Artificial genome could create a 'blank slate' human template

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