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Squid

Life

Genetically altered human cells can vary their transparency like squid

Humans cells can be genetically engineered to produce a squid protein that changes how transparent they are, which could lead to see-through patches of tissue

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The strange physics of why blue jays look blue even though they aren't

Life

The strange physics of why blue jays look blue even though they aren't

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Bleached coral

Environment

Algae transplant could protect coral reefs threatened by warming seas

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Seaweed

Health

Kelp is coming: How seaweed could prevent catastrophic climate change

Features

What is life and how did it evolve? We're getting closer to the answer

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What is life and how did it evolve? We're getting closer to the answer

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What lies beneath: diving to the UK’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef

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What lies beneath: diving to the UK’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef

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Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

Life

Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

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The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

Life

The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

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Bats

Life

Bats can learn to copy sounds and it may teach us about human speech

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Great Barrier Reef coral

Environment

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread bleaching yet

Australia's record-breaking heatwave early this year bleached 60 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef, affecting all three of its regions for the first time

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Life

It turns out loads of frogs and salamanders are fluorescent

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Technology

Cyborg grasshoppers have been engineered to sniff out explosives

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Humans

Teen born without half her brain has above average reading skills

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Health

Coronavirus: Why infections from animals are such a deadly problem

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