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Indo-Pacific sponge Chelonaplysilla sp.

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Sponges can ‘sneeze’ and other sea creatures eat their mucus

Despite having no nerves or muscles, sea sponges slowly contract to squeeze sand and debris out of the openings they feed through

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Five green slender pitcher plants are suspended on vines

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Pitcher plants use raindrop impacts to fling insects into their trap

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3D shape of a protein

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AlphaFold: Why DeepMind’s protein-folding AI is transformational

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Fin whale in front of iceberg

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Southern fin whales have recovered to large numbers in the Antarctic

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A snapping shrimp (Alpheus heterochaelis) at night

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Snapping shrimps have helmets to ward off shock waves from their claws

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3 How Do We Sense Time? Mechanical brain, conceptual image. Composite image of coloured medical imagery of a human brain and skull, with cogs and gears representing concepts such as memory, time and mechanical brains. The imagery includes 3D computed tomography (CT) scans of the skull and 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain. The scans are of a 30-year-old woman.

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How do we sense time? The brain cells that order our memories

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Posidonia australis

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Australian seagrass has cloned itself to cover 180 kilometres of coast

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A rethink of cause and effect could help when things get complicated

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A rethink of cause and effect could help when things get complicated

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Monk Seal, Monachus monachus, Alonissos Island, GreeceMonk seal, Monachus monachus, which enters and swims in the sea. Endangered species. Alonissos Island, Sporades Islands, Greece (Photo by Cristian Umili/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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Ancient Romans may have triggered decline of the world’s rarest seals

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A dolphin with a fungal infection on its dorsal fin

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Rubbing against coral seems to be a popular skin treatment in dolphins

Bottlenose dolphins appear to seek out certain corals and sponges that produce compounds with antibacterial or hormone-like properties

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Ichthyosaur tooth from the Swiss Alps is largest ever discovered

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Jim Al-Khalili: How to live a more rational, scientific life

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Deep-sea ‘octopus garden’ has warm water that speeds egg hatching

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Nanoparticles can translate chemical signals from bacteria to yeast

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