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cell biology

honey bees

Life

Old honeybees make a drumming sound to get young slackers working

The more experienced bees in a colony sometimes run around the honeycomb drumming with their bodies - which seems to energise younger colony members

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mantis shrimp

Life

Mantis shrimps punch with the force of a bullet - and now we know how

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Hangar One building

Life

2019 Breakthrough Prize winners set to receive share in $22 million

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biologists working in lab

Health

Human placenta stem cells help people recover from hip surgery

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sponges

Life

Earliest ever animal fossil is a 660-million-year-old sponge

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Find out how outrageously weird octopuses are – take our quiz

Life

Find out how outrageously weird octopuses are – take our quiz

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squid

Life

The colour blind octopus that mastered the art of disguise

Features

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore wins 2018 Royal Society Book Prize

Mind

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore wins 2018 Royal Society Book Prize

Culture

orca

Life

Pollution threatens to wipe out half of all orca communities

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Priya Singh

Life

The rare-leopard spotter who accidentally caught gunmen in her traps

Priya Singh spent months in the wilds of north-east India tracking elusive clouded leopards and marbled cats, but caught more than she bargained for in her camera traps

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Life

Female flies evolved serrated genitals that get in the way during sex

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Physics

After the cat: Celebrating Schrödinger’s 75-year influence on biology

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Life

Our thirst for water is turning the oceans saltier

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Health

Multiple sclerosis drug is first to dramatically cut brain shrinkage

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