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Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef

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Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef

Fish and seafood are normally fairly environmentally friendly, but it takes so much fuel to catch some species that their carbon footprint is as big as that of red meat

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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

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The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease

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The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease

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Dog brain scans show if they are looking at a happy or sad face

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Dog brain scans show if they are looking at a happy or sad face

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How birds focus even with eyes on opposite sides of their heads

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How birds focus even with eyes on opposite sides of their heads

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Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation

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Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation

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Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too

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Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too

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Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR

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Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR

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A very pregnant female ray had to fend off four courting males

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A very pregnant female ray had to fend off four courting males

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Heavy metal poisoning may be changing birds’ personalities

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Heavy metal poisoning may be changing birds’ personalities

Great tits exposed to toxic metals like cadmium and lead alter their behaviour, becoming less exploratory and more cautious, suggesting their personalities have been reshaped

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Health

Male balding may be cured by injecting epilepsy drug into scalp

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is gobbling up ever more plastic

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Life

Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

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Medicine for sick koalas turns out to actually kill them

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