Hibernating bacteria can invade hospitals and survive outer space - but their energy budget reveals a weakness
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Fuad Gaši, coordinator of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: ‘We have more than 1.4 million samples and the door is only opened three times a year’
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Study shows that the human brain is two separate organs
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How bacteria hijack viruses to shuffle their own DNA
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A brittle star may be a coral’s best friend (2017)
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Donated livers can be made biologically younger
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Coastal fisheries are disappearing as oxygen depletion in warming Danish waters causes fishermen to lose their livelihoods
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Iceland to submit bill that could ban whaling in its waters – government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice
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The marine sanctuary protecting the Gulf’s coral life
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A material found in crab and shrimp shells was made into a gel and used as the working fluid inside a zinc battery
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Guess the daily mystery human bone in five tries
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Why am I left-handed?
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Life’s ‘last universal common ancestor’ may predate life itself
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Surströmming, the Swedish peasant food turned internet sensation, faces an ecological crisis
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Sea ice has been disappearing from East Greenland, allowing giant whales to take advantage and move in to previously inaccessible areas
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Sara Wickström: ‘Cells do not just follow chemical orders; they also sense the forces around them’
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Come 2027, this whale-inspired visitor centre, designed by Dorte Mandrup in Norway, will be the perfect place to observe the majestic animals as they migrate
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Icelandic coast guards and special forces seized a ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson and detained its crew
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Watch orcas ram a sunfish so hard it explodes
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Sperm whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep
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Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
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Laser-boosted microscopes could reveal new drug targets, sharpen views inside cells
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There are three types of farters. Which one are you?
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Arctic seabed mission documents fragile marine life threatened by Norway's deep-sea mining plans – Greenpeace expedition was livestreamed, drawing more than 450,000 viewers on social media platforms
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Strange creatures cast ashore: salps
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The world has an anchovy supply problem
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The biological dogma that women don’t make new eggs after birth may be wrong
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First complete map of world’s seagrass offers warnings and hope for conservation
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This cell feeds, grows and reproduces. And it’s manmade.
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Jumping spiders shouldn’t be this smart
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How one plant murdered a continent
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Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
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What’s new in biology: June 2026
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How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?
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Carcass of dead humpback whale, whose attempted rescue captivated many across Germany, has been pulled ashore in Denmark ahead of autopsy
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Timmy the stranded whale is dead. Please, let’s put animal welfare first and human emotion second.
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Divers have confirmed that a dead humpback whale spotted off Denmark is the same animal that spent weeks beached off Germany's Baltic coast – comes two weeks after contentious rescue operation
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A young walrus who became something of a celebrity as he toured the Scottish coastline has now crossed the North Sea and arrived in Norway
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Norwegian fish farms are filling fjords and other coastal waters with nutrient pollution equivalent to the raw sewage of tens of millions of people each year, a report has found
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Scientists gave cocaine to salmon and you will absolutely believe what happened next
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The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for
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Chimera plantain
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Meet Orpheus—A hopper mission built to hunt for life in Martian volcanoes
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Humans are losing the fight against flying fish
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Students develop faux but sexy robotic sage grouse to strut their stuff in an effort to move a Grand Teton National Park breeding-ground lek away from jets
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Scientists capture how cells trigger inflammation
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Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing -- colonies surged fifteen-fold
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Can plants count? Study suggests they can track the number of events they experience.
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Study finds sperm whales help each other give birth
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Researchers develop biodegradable, plant‑based packaging from natural fibers – new research
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