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Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

Life

Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

Foot-fouling grime restricts interloping geckos on a small island, while native lizards curl their toes and use their claws to dash up dusty surfaces

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Woman sleeping in meadow

Humans

Why rest and relaxation are such a serious business

Culture

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

Life

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

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Assassin bug hunting a spider

Life

Spider-eating bug muffles web vibrations to sneak up on prey

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A white rodent eating a chocolate snack

Life

Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal

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Is it time to allow more than two parents on birth certificates?

Humans

Is it time to allow more than two parents on birth certificates?

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Snow leopard

Life

Hundreds of endangered wild snow leopards are killed each year

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Dozens of ancient shipwrecks spotted deep beneath the Black Sea

Technology

Dozens of ancient shipwrecks spotted deep beneath the Black Sea

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Underwater view of the seabed bubbling with methane taken by a submersible, with the submersible's arm visible in the bottom right

Life

Hundreds of deep-sea vents found spewing methane off US coast

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Capuchin monkey hits stone with stone

Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

Capuchins make stone flakes that could be mistaken for hominin tools, but they do so by accident in search of mineral dust they lick, perhaps as a medication

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Health

'I had a mail-order abortion': The women forced to go it alone

Comment

Life

Whales’ dung is the real reason we need to stop hunting them

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Life

Worms seen farming plants to be eaten later for the first time

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Life

Spiders can hear you walking and talking from across the room

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