Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death
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How is AI impacting science?
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How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese
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Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed
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How our team overturned the ninety-year-old metaphor of a ‘little man’ in the brain who controls movement
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It's the Matrix, but for locusts
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Norway wants to raise taxes on its aquaculture industry, which could provide a model for how to better manage the marine environment
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The myth of the alpha wolf
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First account of apparent alloparental care of a long-finned pilot whale calf by a female killer whale near Snæfellsnes, in west Iceland
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Breakthrough as eggs made from male mice cells
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'Plasticosis': A new disease caused by plastic that is affecting seabirds
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Buried deep in the permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is opening its doors to the world with the launch of a new virtual tour to mark its fifteenth anniversary
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Researchers successfully prevent peanut allergic reactions in mice, blocking onset in its tracks
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“What If?” Eleven serious answers to slightly crazy science questions
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Scientists use CRISPR to insert an alligator gene into a catfish. Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.
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Navigating the ethics of ancient human DNA research
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Excessive outbreaks of seaweed are clogging up our waters – now the algae is being harvested alongside farmed crops to create ingredients for cosmetics and food products
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Expanding the brain. Literally.
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Zombie parasites
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The US government is giving out free wasps
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How do fireflies flash in sync? Studies suggest a new answer.
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US bat species devastated by fungus now listed as endangered
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Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
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How to speak honeybee
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The Hibernator’s Guide to the Galaxy
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New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind.
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OneWhale charity aims to establish first open water safe haven in a reserve for whales, including a Russian beluga that went viral on YouTube
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Science has a nasty Photoshopping problem
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Alaska cancels snow crab season for first time after population collapses
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Bucking convention to track the upside of invasive species
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The CIA just invested in woolly mammoth resurrection technology
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Coral Vita aims to grow corals up to fifty times faster than in nature through land-based farms
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Why (and how) over 600,000 bird specimens are preserved at the Smithsonian | Colossal Collections
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How this Florida town became the sea sponge capital of the world | Big Business
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The Norwegians should not have killed Freya the walrus – if we valued the lives of animals, we would not simply exterminate the ones that inconvenience us
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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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