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Alaska brown bear fishing in the Brooks River

Life

Fat Bear Week: How Alaska's brown bears nearly double in size

Brown bears in Katmai National Park can eat up to 160,000 calories a day to prepare for winter, but how do they know it's feasting time?

News

Free will

Mind

Free will: Can neuroscience reveal if your choices are yours to make?

Features

Illustration of a Trilobite Gut Fossil.

Life

Ancient trilobite stuffed itself with food almost to bursting point

News

box jellyfish

Life

Jellyfish can learn from experience even though they lack a brain

News

Health

We now know how many cells there are in the human body

News

Nature is a quantum engineer

Physics

Why nature is the ultimate quantum engineer

News

Life

Invasive blue crabs are poised to devastate the global clam supply

News

An MRI scan of a section through the chest and heart of someone who had a heart attack showing damage and swelling (yellow, centre)

Health

Cells from discarded placentas may help to treat heart attacks

News

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Life

The delightfully bizarre creatures that live near deep-sea vents

News

Illustration of a human embryo at the blastocyst stage approximately 5 to 9 days after fertilisation. The outer trophoblast layer (green) will implant into the wall of the uterus (endometrium) and go on to form the placenta. The inner fluid-filled cavity of the blastocyst is called the blastocoele. The inner cell mass (embryoblast, orange) will form the embryo.

Comment

From One Cell review: Embryology and the future of medicine

From marigolds to human babies, most complex organisms start as a single-celled embryo. In his new book, Ben Stanger explores what our humble origins could teach us about health and disease

Culture

Video

Project aims to grow one million seagrass plants in Mediterranean Sea

Video

Life

World's smallest baleen whale stays home instead of migrating to feed

News

Life

Neuron-like machinery helps anemones decide when to sting

News

Health

Intermittent fasting could boost immunity in addition to weight loss

News

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