Is Japan's whaling industry going under as demand sinks?
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Freya the walrus sinks boats and captures hearts in Norway – enchanting but unwittingly destructive 600kg marine mammal has taken up residence in Oslo fjord
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Greenland sharks born long before the Industrial Revolution are still hunting Arctic waters to this day – but they face an uncertain future
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Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism
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After a four-year hiatus, Iceland's last remaining whaling company will resume its hunt this summer, much to the chagrin of tourism officials
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The world’s biggest bacterium found in Caribbean mangrove swamp, visible to the naked eye
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Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season
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Why do we see color?
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A frog so small, it could not 'frog'
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Over twenty-five years ago Kári Stefánsson began examining the DNA of Iceland's inhabitants in search of the genetic causes of illness
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Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
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Scientists want to protect narwhals, but the Greenlanders who hunt them say their traditions are being ignored
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This algae battery can power a computer for months
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We might need to reevaluate the sexual harassment allegations against David Sabatini
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Death could be reversible, as scientists bring dead eyes back to life
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Researchers grew tiny plants in moon dirt collected decades ago
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Powerful ‘machine scientists’ distill the laws of physics from raw data
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Meteorites could have brought all five genetic 'letters' of DNA to early Earth
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From high-protein food to plastics and fuel, Swedish scientists are attempting to tap seaweed's huge potential
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What's next for AlphaFold and the AI protein-folding revolution
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Cody's algae panel
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New type of ultraviolet light makes indoor air as safe as outdoors
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Iceland's plan to end commercial whaling is driven by falling demand but also a fifteen-year-long campaign aimed at their biggest consumers of whale meat – tourists
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The portentous comeback of humpback whales
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Iceland's last remaining whaling company said it planned to hunt this summer for the first time since 2018
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This animal’s behavior is mechanically programmed
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Doctors transplant a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the first time
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Their bionic eyes are now obsolete and unsupported
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Commercial whaling in Iceland could be banned within two years, after a government minister said there was little justification for the practice
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A centuries-old concept in soil science has recently been thrown out. Yet it remains a key ingredient in everything from climate models to advanced carbon-capture projects.
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First pig-human transplant: A recap
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Energy, and how to get it - All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view
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Strong new evidence suggests a virus triggers multiple sclerosis
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The phylogenomics of evolving virus virulence
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The dolphin clitoris is full of surprises, scientists discover
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mRNA vaccine technology has helped repair broken hearts in mice
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You have no idea how hard it is to get a hamster drunk
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Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years
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What is the RNA world hypothesis?
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Any good resources on Morphogenesis and related areas?
I recently began thinking about how plants get their shape and discovered "morphogenesis" after some inept googling. It seems like a fascinating subject so I'd like to learn a bit more. I have...
I recently began thinking about how plants get their shape and discovered "morphogenesis" after some inept googling. It seems like a fascinating subject so I'd like to learn a bit more. I have some A-level university courses in chemistry and microbiology, but never dug too deep. So I am looking for suggestions on what to read up on in order to gain some understanding of how plants and other organisms get their shape. The ultimate goal is of course to plant my own house.
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Why insects are more sensitive than they seem
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Promethean beasts - Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition
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The enormous hole that whaling left behind
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"The project goal is to connect a worldwide array of sensors that monitor the sparsely observed deep ocean environment, ocean climate, and sea level rise."
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Female African Elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching
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Scientists used a tiny brain implant to help a blind teacher see letters again
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Excerpts from the Atlas of Poetic Botany
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Norway is to introduce new traps to protect wild salmon after experts warned they could become endangered as a result of contact with their farmed counterparts
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In a major scientific advance, a pig kidney is successfully transplanted into a human
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Wuhan scientists planned to release coronaviruses into cave bats eighteen months before outbreak
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