Photosynthesis, key to life on Earth, starts with a single photon
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Neuroscientists show that brain waves synchronize when people interact
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Why Koko the gorilla couldn't talk
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Controversial research project in Norway on whales' hearing suspended after a whale drowns
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Nanoplastic ingestion causes neurological deficits
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The unique merger that made you (and ewe, and yew)
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Scales or feathers? It all comes down to a few genes
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Octopuses may have vivid nightmares, video suggests
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How is AI impacting science?
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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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One more reason to hate cockroaches
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The myth of the alpha wolf
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Breakthrough as eggs made from male mice cells
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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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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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How to speak honeybee
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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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Science has a nasty Photoshopping problem
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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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Why (and how) over 600,000 bird specimens are preserved at the Smithsonian | Colossal Collections
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The world’s biggest bacterium found in Caribbean mangrove swamp, visible to the naked eye
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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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Death could be reversible, as scientists bring dead eyes back to life
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Powerful ‘machine scientists’ distill the laws of physics from raw data
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From high-protein food to plastics and fuel, Swedish scientists are attempting to tap seaweed's huge potential
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What's next for AlphaFold and the AI protein-folding revolution
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Cody's algae panel
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New type of ultraviolet light makes indoor air as safe as outdoors
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The portentous comeback of humpback whales
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This animal’s behavior is mechanically programmed
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Doctors transplant a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the first time
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Their bionic eyes are now obsolete and unsupported
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First pig-human transplant: A recap
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Energy, and how to get it - All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view
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Strong new evidence suggests a virus triggers multiple sclerosis
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The phylogenomics of evolving virus virulence
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The dolphin clitoris is full of surprises, scientists discover
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