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'Flying spaghetti monster' caught on video off the Angolan coast

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'Flying spaghetti monster' caught on video off the Angolan coast

Footage of an unusual marine animal covered in tentacles allowed oceanographers to identify it as a siphonophore

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Mutation alert halts stem cell trial to cure blindness

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What if … We don't need bodies?

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What if … We don't need bodies?

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Secret ecosystem found on hills deep beneath the ocean's surface

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Secret ecosystem found on hills deep beneath the ocean's surface

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Fine flavours: The unsuspected talents of your taste buds

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What if … We learn to talk to animals?

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What if … We learn to talk to animals?

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Cocaine is bad for Colombia's forests but big farming is worse

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Cocaine is bad for Colombia's forests but big farming is worse

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Nettling conundrum

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Bionics man offers a taste of our cyborg future

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Bionics man offers a taste of our cyborg future

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Home, sweet exomoon: The new frontier in the search for ET

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Home, sweet exomoon: The new frontier in the search for ET

We're fixated on the idea that life can only exist on a planet like Earth – but the most likely habitat might lie elsewhere

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Seeds of doubt

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Nature's strangest families: Why animals adopt

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Living lasers made by injecting oil droplets into human cells

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