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Hitchin' a ride: Brittle star gets a lift on larger starfish

This unusual embrace was spotted in the warm, shallow waters of the Solomon Islands – but once the tiddler grows it will swamp its transport

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Health

In sync: How to take control of your many body clocks

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Life

Extreme morning sickness? You’re less likely to have a boy

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Bawean warty pig may be world's rarest pig, with only 230 around

Life

Bawean warty pig may be world's rarest pig, with only 230 around

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Cloud atlas uses satellite data to predict where species live

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Cloud atlas uses satellite data to predict where species live

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Space

Feedback: Poppers burn a hole in the UK's blanket drugs ban

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Life

Human versus pig: Can we outwit the hog hordes?

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Giving mosquitoes chemical weapons helps keep them under control

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Giving mosquitoes chemical weapons helps keep them under control

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Eyeless cave shrimp senses light and can live frozen in ice

Life

Eyeless cave shrimp senses light and can live frozen in ice

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Artificial cell designed in lab reveals genes essential to life

Life

Artificial cell designed in lab reveals genes essential to life

Bacterium created in Craig Venter's lab breaks record for smallest genome and could help reveal secrets of life

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Life

Small is beautiful: Why a synthetic minimal genome is a big deal

Opinion

Life

The evolution of the nose: why is the human hooter so big?

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Life

Cute prairie dogs are serial killers savaging ground squirrels

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Life

Glass invertebrates reveal the plight of modern oceans

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