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marine biology

Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline

Life

Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline

With bee populations tumbling, an autonomous drone just 4 centimetres wide could help pollinate crops by flying from flower to flower

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Dolphins playing with hoops

Life

Synchronised swimming seems to make dolphins more optimistic

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Boat on dried-up lake floor

Life

Massive lake drained for hydropower leaves dry bed and no fish

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Bear confronts wolf carrying prey

Life

Why grey wolves kill less prey when brown bears are around

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Arabian babbler bird

Life

Bird lookouts make alarm calls to save themselves, not the group

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Some of the turfwinkle snails in their natural habitat

Earth

Ocean acidification may be good for thriving marine snails

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The bucket-shaped leaves of carnivorous pitcher plants

Life

Carnivorous plants repurpose stress genes to digest their prey

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chemotherapy drugs on IV pole

Health

Drug stops nasty chemotherapy side effects in mice with cancer

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A vaquita caught in a net

Life

World’s most endangered marine mammal has 30 individuals left

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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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Life

Pom-pom crabs prune their living decorations like bonsai trees

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Life

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

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Life

Chimps beat up, murder and then cannibalise their former tyrant

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Humans

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

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