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DNA computer

Technology

DNA computer could tell you if your drinking water is contaminated

A simple test for water pollution involving engineered strands of DNA can report levels of contamination, and this biological system can carry out logical operations like those done by computers

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RoboKrill

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RoboKrill is a one-legged robot that mimics the way krill swim

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Pacific football fish

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Unusual anglerfish glows with bioluminescent and fluorescent light

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Breeding with farmed fish is changing the life cycle of wild salmon

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Mother and daughter

Humans

Babies bond better with strangers when they can smell their mother

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A humpback whale

Life

Baleen whales eat three times more krill than we thought

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Bacillus subtilis

Health

Genetically engineered bacteria could heal us from inside our cells

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A sea cucumber, Chiridota heheva

Life

Sea cucumber has modified genes to help it live on hydrothermal vents

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Mother and baby Antarctic Fur seals

Life

Antarctic seal numbers rose and fell with climate over 50,000 years

DNA suggests the Antarctic fur seal population has grown and shrunk as the climate has warmed and cooled, and this might help predict where the mammal will move in future

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Life

We can now bioengineer catnip instead of extracting it from plants

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Life

Sea fireflies adapted their threatening glow to attract mates

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Life

A glimpse at Greenland's deep-sea ecosystems threatened by fishing

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Life

Male bigfin reef squid may be the best fathers of all cephalopods

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