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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Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman
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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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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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Book review: Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?
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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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Scientists grow mouse embryos in a mechanical womb
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How is this horse feeling? New mobile brain wave reader could tell
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No one is prepared for hagfish slime
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Why prehistoric humans needed no braces: Crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon and a telltale sign of an underlying epidemic
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Scientists are concerned by falling sperm counts and declining egg quality. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals may be the problem.
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Why sleep deprivation kills
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'Bug fight club' clarifies evolution of natural weapons
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Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find
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First patients to get CRISPR gene-editing treatment continue to thrive
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What are the seven (well, eight) realms of biogeography?
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Once mysterious, ocean surface slicks are pelagic nurseries for diverse fishes
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Experimental compound revives memory in Alzheimer’s disease mice
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Early illustrations of the nervous system by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Jimmy Bernot PhD - Heres the story of how I volunteered to be infected with fifty parasitic worms (hookworm) for a year as part of a research study
@Jimmy Bernot PhD 🦐🪱🏳️🌈: Heres the story of how I volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms (hookworm) for a year as part of a research study. Check out this thread & follow me for more #parasite & marine biology content [t]#ScienceTwitter imgs: https://t.co/hH5YsfS0ay https://t.co/kVurE6BbTS pic.twitter.com/l75h5XcNfl
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The pandemic that lasted fifteen million years
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Icelandic man receives world's first double-arm-and-shoulder transplant – four surgical teams were involved to minimise the transition time between donor and recipient
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Tiny high-tech probes reveal how information flows across the brain
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Identical twins aren’t perfect clones, research shows
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Nanotechnology for plant genetic engineering
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The ethical challenges of connecting our brains to computers
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'The platypuses were glowing': The secret light of Australia's marsupials
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Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta
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Gene therapy, absolutely and for real
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What is an individual? Biology seeks clues in information theory.
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Researchers restore lost sight in mice, offering clues to reversing aging
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Scientists restore age-related vision loss in mice through epigenetic reprogramming
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‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures
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AlphaFold: A solution to a fifty-year-old grand challenge in biology
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Scientists discover the first animal that doesn’t breathe oxygen to live
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Decoding the mathematical secrets of plants’ stunning leaf patterns
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