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cell biology

Spider's web uses optical illusion to lure nocturnal moths

Life

Spider's web uses optical illusion to lure nocturnal moths

The lace sheet weaver builds a web that seems to fool moths into thinking they are flying into open space – instead of into a trap

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A salmon swimming upriver to spawn

Life

Baby salmon with ‘old’ DNA more likely to survive epic migration

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Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

Health

Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

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Man holding cod

Life

Now North Sea cod is sustainable, is it really ok to eat?

Analysis

Giant deep-sea worms may live to be 1000 years old or more

Life

Giant deep-sea worms may live to be 1000 years old or more

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Mud eel's wonky body may help it ambush prey

Life

Mud eel's wonky body may help it ambush prey

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First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves

Life

First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves

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People looking through window at a hopsital nursery with abies in cots

Life

At least 75 per cent of our DNA really is useless junk after all

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blue whale skeleton suspended from the ceiling

Life

The day Hope the whale stole the show

Culture

A view accross farmland with a little water on the surface

Life

150-year-old zombie plants revived after excavating ghost ponds

Plant species from ghost ponds that were buried alive when agricultural land expanded can survive for hundreds of years

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Life

Ravens can plan for future as well as 4-year-old children can

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Life

Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence

Features

Life

Swinging birds play with rhythm like jazz musicians

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Life

Ants build living towers that flow like a fountain in reverse

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