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Stunning seeds: a biological meteor wreathed in flames

Some seeds have a look that evokes all-consuming fire, says an artist who captures their portraits with a flatbed scanner

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World of life's jewelled beauty in new museum shrine

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Snow falling on red squirrels in Scotland

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Beating heart of a quantum time machine exposed

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Netted Costa Rican birds pay small price for art

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Supernova-powered bow shock creates cosmic spectacle

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Life

Wolves bite back in the human world

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Chad's 'mountains of hunger' as rendered by Turner

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Extremophile ecosystem thrives in Arctic frost flowers

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Megacity China: the ultimate in urban migration

You would be forgiven for thinking that this "spreading pancake" of a city is the dream-limbo city featured in the movie Inception

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Dinosaurs might have once gazed into the Grand Canyon

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Which way to Mos Eisley? Aerial view of Algerian oases

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See a gorilla in the midst

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Seagull's-eye view of world's biggest wind turbine

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