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How memory power helps bird brains survive the winter

Black-capped chickadees in snowier climes have bigger memory centres in their brains, perhaps because better spatial memory helps them find food in winter

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Polluted perfume could put pollinators off the scent

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Polluted perfume could put pollinators off the scent

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You'd beat a Neanderthal in a race

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You'd beat a Neanderthal in a race

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Thank bees for orchids' diversity

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Thank bees for orchids' diversity

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Did modern humans go global twice as early as thought?

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Zoologger: The fish with no stomach for its prey

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Zoologger: The fish with no stomach for its prey

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Bug to spider: I will control your offspring's sex

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Tiny orang-utan populations are surprisingly diverse

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Tiny orang-utan populations are surprisingly diverse

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Dragonfly wings inspire micro wind turbine design

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Dragonfly wings inspire micro wind turbine design

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Making life, but not as we know it

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Making life, but not as we know it

Can you create life from scratch using different chemical building blocks to ours? An ambitious new experiment aims to find out, says Katharine Sanderson

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The selfish metaphor: Conceits of evolution

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Lost islands of the crows revealed in DNA study

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How the seahorse gained its shapely body

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Did pterosaurs fly out of their eggs?

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