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cell biology

Rock ants

Life

Ant choosiness reveals they all have different personalities

Forget ants all being mindless clones. Fussy individuals that learn from past experience are crucial for helping a colony choose the right place to live

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Pom-pom crabs prune their living decorations like bonsai trees

Life

Pom-pom crabs prune their living decorations like bonsai trees

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whale shark

Life

We don't need a huge blue grab to save sharks and rays

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Chimp with Foudouko's body

Life

Chimps beat up, murder and then cannibalise their former tyrant

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Surreal picture of misty woman

Humans

Memories can be disconnected – and it could help those with PTSD

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embryo

Life

Embryonic education: How learning begins long before birth

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Life

New hermit crab has candy-stick legs and a giant spoon-like claw

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purpose artwork

Health

A meaning to life: How a sense of purpose can keep you healthy

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whale shark

Life

Whale sharks' secrets revealed by live-tracking aquatic drones

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Grey fox

Life

Foxes may confuse predators by rubbing themselves in puma scent

Gray foxes in the mountains of California rub in the scent of pumas, possibly to absorb their smell and confuse predators to give themselves a chance to run

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Life

Seals hunt down hidden fish by sensing their breath in the sand

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Life

Majority of primate species may vanish in next 25 to 50 years

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Health

Cellular recovery: How self-help could aid the damaged brain

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Life

Breath of life: Did animals evolve without oxygen?

Features

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