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cell biology

High-power biological wheels and motors imaged for first time

Life

High-power biological wheels and motors imaged for first time

The gearing system that provides rotation in bacterial flagella, the only known examples of wheels in nature, has been resolved in 3D for the first time

News

<em>Dracula</em> orchid flowers mimic mushrooms to attract flies

Life

Dracula orchid flowers mimic mushrooms to attract flies

News

cell electricity

Life

Animal Electricity: How the forces inside cells actually behave

CultureLab

Bionic fingertip gives amputee a feel for different textures

Technology

Bionic fingertip gives amputee a feel for different textures

News

Chimp holding big stone at foot of tree

Life

What do chimp ‘temples’ tell us about the evolution of religion?

News

A woman looking anxious as she stands by a window

Life

Anxious people hear some sounds as more important than they are

News

A gorup of women in costumes laughing

Health

Shock of good news can hurt your heart as much as grief

News

Stocco

Humans

I’m creating telepathy technology to get brains talking

Opinion

snapper spawn

Life

Mass of spawning fish make a milky way on a coral reef

Regulars

A small plastic bottle marked as containing a sample of the Zika virus

Health

Zika virus likely to cause paralysing Guillain-Barré syndrome

Blood from people affected by the 2014 Zika outbreak in French Polynesia provides the first evidence that the virus can make the immune system attack nerve cells

News

Life

Super-fast evolving fish splitting into two species in same lake

News

Life

Whale algorithm could unlock secrets of their many dialects

News

Life

Squid filmed using their ink clouds as smokescreen to catch prey

News

Life

Glow-in-the-dark bacterial lights could illuminate shop windows

News

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