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 in the US
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Wuhan scientists planned to release coronaviruses into cave bats eighteen months before outbreak
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Practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under renewed scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals were killed in one day
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The World of Serina | Speculative Biology | Part I
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Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps, with more wasps inside – introduction of Glanville fritillary leads to emergence of three new species on island of Sottunga
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Australian musk ducks have the ability to call you a ‘bloody fool,’ research finds
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RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow fifty percent more potatoes, rice
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Why are scorpions fluorescent?
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This virus shouldn't exist (but it does)
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Female octopuses throw things at males that are harassing them
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Why we're blind to the color blue
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Scientists grew stem cell 'mini brains'. Then, the brains sort-of developed eyes
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International seafood company Grieg Seafood leaked nearly 4,000 gallons of chlorine into a northern Norway fjord, killing approximately 96,000 fish
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Five parrots separated at British zoo after encouraging each other to curse profusely at guests
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The science of being transgender
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The longest-running evolution experiment
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AlphaFold DB provides open access to protein structure predictions for the human proteome and twenty other key organisms to accelerate scientific research
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Meth addiction in fish poses threat to ecosystem balance, study says
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Spiders are eating snakes all over the world, and yeah, it's gruesome
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I touched the world's most painful plant - Gympie gympie (the suicide plant)
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Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity
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We’ve barely explored the darkest realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it.
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Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman
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An extremely common microbe can stop the insects from spreading the virus that causes dengue fever
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Plans to capture and run six-hour-long sound tests on young minke whales are set to go ahead in Norway despite condemnation from more than fifty international scientists
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Why having a 'weak' hand is good, and why they may be better described as "support" hands
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The long, strange life of the world’s oldest naked mole rat
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Heads up! The cardiovascular secrets of giraffes
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Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores
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Mimicry: When animals copy other animals
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The man who drank Cholera and launched the yogurt craze. Ilya Metchnikoff laid the foundation for modern probiotics.
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The world’s first programmable organism
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Scientists have taught bees to smell the coronavirus
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Bee population steady in Dutch cities thanks to pollinator strategy
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England’s largest seagrass planting programme gets underway
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Book review: Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?
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Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life beneath its surface, study finds
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Scientists want your help stalking billions of Cicadas
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How will plants cope with fewer pollinators?
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Human taste buds can tell the difference between normal and 'heavy' water
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First clinical trial confirms HIV vaccine using Moderna inoculation
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A womb with a view
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How humans became the best throwers on the planet
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These mutant blind rabbits walk on their front two legs, and now we know why
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How we discovered a hidden world of fungi inside the world’s biggest seed bank
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Israeli scientists grow mouse embryos in a mechanical womb
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