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Why did sex evolve? Blame an ancient hook-up

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Why did sex evolve? Blame an ancient hook-up

Cloning is much easier than making offspring with a partner, so why bother? It's to do with how our cells came together, says biologist Justin Havird

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Avant-garde fly wearing beads of dew wins photography prize

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Avant-garde fly wearing beads of dew wins photography prize

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Myriad moths reveal odd shapes and hypnotising patterns

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Myriad moths reveal odd shapes and hypnotising patterns

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Corals glow in spectacular colours thanks to ‘fluo-dive' lights

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Corals glow in spectacular colours thanks to ‘fluo-dive' lights

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Magical morphing jumbo squid are taking over the eastern Pacific

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Magical morphing jumbo squid are taking over the eastern Pacific

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Mind

Disease-proof

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Psychiatry is reinventing itself thanks to advances in biology

Health

Psychiatry is reinventing itself thanks to advances in biology

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7 mind slips that cause catastrophe – and how we can avoid them

Life

7 mind slips that cause catastrophe – and how we can avoid them

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Track individual tigers just by listening to them roar

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Track individual tigers just by listening to them roar

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'Flying spaghetti monster' caught on video off the Angolan coast

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'Flying spaghetti monster' caught on video off the Angolan coast

Footage of an unusual marine animal covered in tentacles allowed oceanographers to identify it as a siphonophore

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Life

Fine flavours: The unsuspected talents of your taste buds

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Earth

Secret ecosystem found on hills deep beneath the ocean's surface

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Life

What if … We learn to talk to animals?

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Earth

Cocaine is bad for Colombia's forests but big farming is worse

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