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Monica Gagliano

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To truly blossom, science requires some unorthodox thinkers

What seem like odd ideas often lead to advances. Work on plant memory and learning could be the latest example of how thinking differently changes our view of the world

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Monica Gagliano

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Smarty plants: They can learn, adapt and remember without brains

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37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body

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37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body

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Judith Mank: Why do we have sex?

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Judith Mank: Why do we have sex?

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collagen molecule

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Life may have begun with cells made wholly from simple proteins

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Dynasties review: Attenborough’s latest special focuses on real drama

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Dynasties review: Attenborough’s latest special focuses on real drama

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Venki Ramakrishnan: The giant gene-translating machine

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Venki Ramakrishnan: The giant gene-translating machine

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Humpback whales stop singing when cargo ships make a lot of noise

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honey bees

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Old honeybees make a drumming sound to get young slackers working

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mantis shrimp

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Mantis shrimps punch with the force of a bullet - and now we know how

The mantis shrimp has an incredibly fast punch, and it’s because of a structure called a saddle that stores energy and then releases it like an archer's bow

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2019 Breakthrough Prize winners set to receive share in $22 million

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Human placenta stem cells help people recover from hip surgery

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Earliest ever animal fossil is a 660-million-year-old sponge

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Find out how outrageously weird octopuses are – take our quiz

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