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A hermit crab

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Microplastics may stop hermit crabs from choosing the best home

Life in plastic is not fantastic. Microplastics disrupt the ability of hermit crabs to choose the best shells.

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Hans Christian Gram: The biologist who helped investigate bacteria

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Hans Christian Gram: The biologist who helped investigate bacteria

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coral spawning

Environment

Coral reefs are now spawning out of sync and might fail to reproduce

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great barrier reef

Environment

Great Barrier Reef now has 'very poor' outlook due to climate change

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woman with chocolate

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People who are naturally slim have smaller and more active fat cells

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Jon Spooner (left) meets Apollo astronaut Al Worden in the Space Shed

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Don't miss: Curative comedy, cultural copies and an unlikely fish diet

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Biologists have a problem with homosexuality – they should get over it

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Biologists have a problem with homosexuality – they should get over it

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bumblebee

Life

Bees' very hairy tongues help them mop up different types of nectar

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whale shark

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Endangered whale sharks strain fish out of the water using huge mouths

Whale sharks can feed on huge numbers of prey at once by opening their mouths over a metre wide. But they are gentle giants and juveniles even swim with divers

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Life

Early life on Earth may have existed as miniature droplets of jelly

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Health

Why I’m growing bits of human intestine in a dish in the lab

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Evolution of the eye

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Why do we have sex?