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Fingernails on a blackboard

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The feeling you get when nails scratch a blackboard has a name

Spanish speakers use the word “grima” to describe the feeling when a knife scratches a plate. Now it seems English-speakers react in the same way

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Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are

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Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are

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Altruism

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Does a networked world need a new approach to doing good?

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great auk

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Resurrecting nature: Extinct is not forever

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octopus

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The 1830s seamstress who solved Aristotle’s octopus mystery

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A turtle's eye

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Mystery eye disease is latest blow for Australia’s sick turtles

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Platythyrea and Strumigenys ants

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Big builder ants and tiny guard ants live together in one nest

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Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

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Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

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Woolly mammoth

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Can we grow woolly mammoths in the lab? George Church hopes so

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A man looking exhausted

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Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome

CFS, also known as ME, may be caused by the body switching from fully breaking down carbohydrates to using other energy sources, bringing on pain and exhaustion

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Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down

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400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach

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New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride

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Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline

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