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Books and apps make animal-spotting easier than ever

Life

Books and apps make animal-spotting easier than ever

From whizzy guides to funky apps, it's an exciting time for amateur and professional naturalists alike

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Lifeless Earth: What if everything died out tomorrow?

Earth

Lifeless Earth: What if everything died out tomorrow?

Features

DNA-grabbing bacteria hint at early phase of evolution

Life

DNA-grabbing bacteria hint at early phase of evolution

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Deadly lake turns animals into statues

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Deadly lake turns animals into statues

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Pretty plankton needs your help

Life

Pretty plankton needs your help

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Bye-bye Bambi: Eagle snags deer in ambitious attack

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Bye-bye Bambi: Eagle snags deer in ambitious attack

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Thoughts: The inside story

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Thoughts: The inside story

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Manners maketh man: how disgust shaped human evolution

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Manners maketh man: how disgust shaped human evolution

Opinion

Mind games: From Ancient Greece to Schrödinger's cat

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Mind games: From Ancient Greece to Schrödinger's cat

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Life

Crime-scene DNA extracted from single hair

For the first time, full DNA profiles have been extracted from hairs and tiny sweat samples. It was done by targeting free-floating genetic material

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Life

Heart of glass could be key to banking organs

News

What makes the purrfect pet?

Opinion

Health

Cells inside a body reprogrammed to become stem cells

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Earth

Grey wolf's future hinges on taxonomic row

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