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Humans

Why rest and relaxation are such a serious business

Hard work and rest sound like opposites, but it’s much more complex, says Mary Halton, after visiting a new exhibition and exploring a new book

Culture

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

Life

Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

News

Assassin bug hunting a spider

Life

Spider-eating bug muffles web vibrations to sneak up on prey

News

A white rodent eating a chocolate snack

Life

Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal

News

Is it time to allow more than two parents on birth certificates?

Humans

Is it time to allow more than two parents on birth certificates?

Comment

Snow leopard

Life

Hundreds of endangered wild snow leopards are killed each year

News

Underwater view of the seabed bubbling with methane taken by a submersible, with the submersible's arm visible in the bottom right

Life

Hundreds of deep-sea vents found spewing methane off US coast

News

Capuchin monkey hits stone with stone

Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

News

Picure of Women on Web

Health

'I had a mail-order abortion': The women forced to go it alone

Comment

Two whales swimming along, one of them has left a plume of faeces behind it

Life

Whales’ dung is the real reason we need to stop hunting them

Growing evidence that whales boost fish numbers and play a crucial environmental role will take centre stage at a major whaling summit taking place this week

News

Life

Worms seen farming plants to be eaten later for the first time

News

Life

Spiders can hear you walking and talking from across the room

News

Earth

Frogfish turns itself white to blend in with bleached corals

News

Life

Animal heroes that save other species: Five amazing stories

Features