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Conservation dilemmas: Is a shopping mall as alive as a wolf?

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Conservation dilemmas: Is a shopping mall as alive as a wolf?

It's getting tricky to work out what we mean by "alive" and worthy of conservation efforts. Two new books explore this strange frontier

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Pope's moral mission on global warming to shift US climate wars

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Pope's moral mission on global warming to shift US climate wars

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$UK fracking wells get thumbs up from planners$

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UK fracking wells get thumbs up from planners

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Transcribing tricks ushers in the golden age of juggling

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Transcribing tricks ushers in the golden age of juggling

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Some people can resist the ravages of HIV – here's how

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Some people can resist the ravages of HIV – here's how

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DNA is life's blueprint? No, there's far more to it than that

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DNA is life's blueprint? No, there's far more to it than that

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<i>The Soul of an Octopus</i>: Getting to know an intelligent mollusc

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The Soul of an Octopus: Getting to know an intelligent mollusc

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Polar bear caught eating dolphins and freezing the leftovers

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Polar bear caught eating dolphins and freezing the leftovers

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Cheers! Chimps' favourite tipple is sweet palm wine

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Cheers! Chimps' favourite tipple is sweet palm wine

Chimps in Guinea seem to get tipsy on the booze they find at the bottom of raffia palms, in the first study of the drinking habits of wild chimpanzees

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LightSail spacecraft successfully deploys solar sail

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Monkeys' cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication

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‘Female Viagra' to treat low libido gets go-ahead from FDA panel

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In so many words: How to ride the space-wind to the stars

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