The last giraffes on earth - The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think
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What does the world look like from a beetle’s-eye view? Researchers strapped tiny cameras to the insects’ backs to find out
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What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course
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Canada's sparrows are singing a new song. You'll hear it soon
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A highly contagious, often lethal rabbit virus arrives in the United States
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Photographing orphaned baby squirrels in the wild – photographer and zoologist Dani Connor 'adopted' four squirrels after their mother died
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A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera
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The long-forgotten remains of a giant wombat-like animal that roamed Australia twenty-five million years ago has revealed an all new family of ancient marsupials
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A year on, first patient to get gene editing for sickle cell disease is thriving
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Three animal reproduction specialists fact-check ‘The Bad Touch’ by the Bloodhound Gang
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The intelligence of earthworms
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Blowing bubbles: Soapy spheres pop pollen on fruit trees
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The boring billion - The world before plate tectonics
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True facts: Cats' killer senses
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Jurassic Park dinosaurs illustrated with modern science
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British farmers need all the help science can offer. Time to allow gene editing
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Type A blood converted to universal donor blood with help from bacterial enzymes
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Coronaviruses are extremely widespread in wild animals bred for food in Vietnam, with the wildlife supply chain quickly spreading those viruses to uninfected animals, preliminary research shows
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The biology and people of Madagascar
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The search for the world’s simplest animal: For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely
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Every Jurassic Park dinosaur illustrated with modern science
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How Europeans evolved white skin
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Microplastic pollution in oceans vastly underestimated - study: Particles may outnumber zooplankton, which underpin marine life and regulate climate
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It's called artificial intelligence—but what *is* intelligence?
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No, you don't have a "lizard brain": Why the Psychology 101 model of the brain is all wrong
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Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia
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Llama antibodies could help fight coronavirus, study finds
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Mouse embryos that are four per cent human are step towards spare organs
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Darkling Beetles: Daringly dynamic
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Elisabeth Bik quit her job to spot errors in research papers — and has become the public face of image sleuthing
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Mexico finds 15,000 turtles in crates bound for China
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Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland – citing the pandemic, whale watching, and a lack of exports, one of the three largest whaling countries may be calling it quits
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Mars 2020 remains on track for July launch
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More than thirty million years ago, monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America
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A Google plan to wipe out mosquitoes appears to be working
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Australian scientists have made a test to check who is likely to develop coronavirus
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Shimmering schools of fish have dazzled scientists for centuries with their synchronized maneuvers. Now, high-speed video is revealing how—and why—they do it
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Scientists in Melbourne are testing a drug used to fight parasitic worms and bugs – in the hope of destroying coronavirus
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Physical force alone spurs gene expression, study reveals
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What’s a virus, anyway? Part 1: The bare-bones basics.
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Coronavirus: CSIRO scientists begin vaccine testing in global COVID-19 milestone
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World-first tool to help medicos detect COVID-19 could save 'thousands of lives'
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Labs are euthanizing thousands of mice in response to coronavirus pandemic
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Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial
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Microbial life has been found deep in Earth's crust beneath the ocean floor
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New blood tests for antibodies could show true scale of coronavirus pandemic
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'Sushi parasites' have increased 283-fold in past forty years
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Testing the efficacy of homemade masks: Would they protect in an influenza pandemic?
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An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins
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Planetary science decadal survey to include astrobiology and planetary defense
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