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marine biology

embryo

Life

Embryonic education: How learning begins long before birth

Animals developing inside eggs and uteruses glean so much about the outside world that we need to question behaviour we think of as instinctive

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Life

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

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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

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A harbour seal

Life

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

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An adult gorilla holding a young gorilla

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?

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Pink bacterium with purple background

Life

Electronic gene control could let us plug bacteria into devices

Hooking up custom-made microbes to electronics could have a host of applications in medicine and industry, such as smarter drugs and better health apps

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Life

Antelope revived in Sahara years after going extinct in the wild

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Earth

Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago

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Life

Harvester ants farm by planting seeds to eat once they germinate

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Life

First ever video of an elusive new ruby seadragon filmed in wild

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