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A grey and white porpoise lying on a pebbly beach

Life

UK's harbour porpoise strandings linked to rising starvation

More and more porpoises are stranding around the UK because of starvation. Paradoxically, this may be down to better fishing practices

News

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Life

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

Features

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Earth

Why cheap green energy could derail the renewable revolution

Analysis

Hatched blastocyst embryo

Health

Embryo protein may warn before miscarriage and pre-eclampsia

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Humans

What is Paleolithic Art?: How to decode the shadows on the wall

Culture

human and dog skeletons

Life

Lovely bones: Fascinating skeletons of the past and present

Culture

Beluga whale

Life

Drowning in sound? The sad case of the baby beluga whales

Features

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Technology

If Google has nothing to hide about NHS data, why so secretive?

Leader

The yellow blooms of a flowering mustard plant

Life

Plants may form memories using mad cow disease proteins

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A man lying on a hotel bed with city lights all around through the windows

Health

Sleeping away from home? Half your brain is still awake

People often struggle to sleep their first night in an unfamiliar room, which might be because the left brain remains vigilant for threats

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Humans

Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

CultureLab

Life

21-million-year-old fossil is North America's first monkey

News

Life

Dolphins have a language that helps them solve problems together

News

Life

Mysterious deep-sea sharks biting chunks out of migrating whales

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