Atlantic sturgeon are being reintroduced to Swedish waters with the help of scientists and advocates nearly 100 years after they died out in the region
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Iceland's government has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation's last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year
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Elephants call each other by name, study finds
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Size matters? "Size" dissatisfaction and gun ownership in America.
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Sweden is set to become the second EU country to ban bottom fishing in marine protected areas
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Researchers solve 2,000-year-old mystery of the shipworm
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Giant viruses discovered on Greenland ice sheet could reduce ice melt by feeding on the snow algae which diminish ability of ice to reflect the sun
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Biologists discovered a widespread protein that abruptly shuts down a cell’s activity — and turns it back on just as fast
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It's weirder than I thought. How cicadas make noise (in ultra slow motion).
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See the most detailed map of human brain matter ever created
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Scientists figured out why orcas have been sinking boats for the last four years [turns out it's juveniles just having fun]
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Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis.
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Norway sued over deep-sea mining plans – WWF says the government has breached the law without adequately assessing the consequences
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UNM researchers find microplastics in canine and human testicular tissue
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New candidate genes for human male infertility found by analyzing gorillas' unusual reproductive system
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Playing with the kids is important work for chimpanzee mothers
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Exploring the mysterious alphabet of sperm whales
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‘I’m a blue whale, I’m here’: researchers listen with delight to songs that hint at Antarctic resurgence
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The biggest little guy
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Big farms are under pressure to address the problem of dying salmon in Norway's vast fish-farm industry
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Wild Orangutan observed using first aid on a wound
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Enzymes open new path to universal donor blood
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Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient
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Cow magnets
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The fish doorbell
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Mechanism keeps track of the time cells take to split, sounding the alarm on cells that may turn cancerous
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I had chemo and my hair came back curly
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Analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven’s DNA revealed that he had a low genetic predisposition for musical ability
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Researchers show that introduced tardigrade proteins can slow metabolism in human cells
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Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien-hunting
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Scientists studied how cicadas pee. Their insights could shed light on fluid dynamics.
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I teach you weird animal mating facts for half an hour
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US National Institutes of Health studies find severe symptoms of “Havana Syndrome,” but no evidence of MRI-detectable brain injury or biological abnormalities
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From ocean to plate, the female-led seaweed company Lofoten Seaweed in Norway – in pictures
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Chimp moms play with their offspring through good times and bad
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When armor met lips
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Our bacteria are more personal than we thought, study shows
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Montana man, 80, pleads guilty to creating giant mutant hybrid bighorns
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Hydropower can be an environmental and human disaster – but do the risks have to be so big?
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Norway will not go ahead with plans to permit seabed mining of critical raw materials on its continental shelf if initial exploration suggests it cannot be done sustainably
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MH370 and the sea creatures that opened a new mystery
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Research sheds light on new strategy to treat infertility
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How to move a 1,000-pound rescued manatee (swimming isn’t an option)
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Rivers reborn: Alewives continue to make a recovery in the Penobscot watershed in Maine
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Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts
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Why is it so hard to tell the sex of a dinosaur?
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What's an obelisk, anyway?
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Bioluminescent houseplant hits US market for first time
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The growing link between microbes, mood and mental health
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Your appendix is not, in fact, useless. This anatomy professor explains.
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