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Beetles escape alive after almost 2 hours in a toad’s stomach

Life

Beetles escape alive after almost 2 hours in a toad’s stomach

Bombardier beetles sometimes get eaten by toads, but they can squirt hot, toxic jets of liquid from their backsides so the toads often vomit them right back up

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Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive

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Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive

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Space

Mars rocks may have drunk up all the water and doomed life there

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Earth

The unseen puppet masters that control life in the oceans

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Robot made from a DNA strand could deliver cargo in your blood

Technology

Robot made from a DNA strand could deliver cargo in your blood

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Ice

Earth

Gel-like ice is the lightest form of water ever discovered

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Humans

Why adding a drop of water can make whisky taste even better

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Atomic assembly lines are a small victory for chemists

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Technology

Atomic Legoland: How to build wonder stuff from the atom up

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Goldfish go months without oxygen by making alcohol inside cells

Life

Goldfish go months without oxygen by making alcohol inside cells

Goldfish and crucian carp have evolved enzymes that turn carbohydrates into alcohol when no oxygen is available – helping the fish survive in ice-locked pools

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Health

Cold comfort: How chilling the lungs could beat heart attacks

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Technology

How to strip 99 per cent of harmful BPA from water in 30 minutes

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Physics

Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives

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Technology

Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic

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