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Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

Life

Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

Foot-fouling grime restricts interloping geckos on a small island, while native lizards curl their toes and use their claws to dash up dusty surfaces

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Woman sleeping in meadow

Humans

Why rest and relaxation are such a serious business

Culture

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

Life

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

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Assassin bug hunting a spider

Life

Spider-eating bug muffles web vibrations to sneak up on prey

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A white rodent eating a chocolate snack

Life

Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal

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Is it time to allow more than two parents on birth certificates?

Humans

Is it time to allow more than two parents on birth certificates?

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Snow leopard

Life

Hundreds of endangered wild snow leopards are killed each year

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Underwater view of the seabed bubbling with methane taken by a submersible, with the submersible's arm visible in the bottom right

Life

Hundreds of deep-sea vents found spewing methane off US coast

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Capuchin monkey hits stone with stone

Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

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Picure of Women on Web

Health

'I had a mail-order abortion': The women forced to go it alone

Many Irish women travel to England for abortions but sometimes this is not practical. One woman tells us how a website made it possible

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Life

Whales’ dung is the real reason we need to stop hunting them

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Life

Worms seen farming plants to be eaten later for the first time

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Life

Spiders can hear you walking and talking from across the room

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Earth

Frogfish turns itself white to blend in with bleached corals

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