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Old salt lizard at home in Darwin's primal landscape

Photographer Sebastião Salgado sets the armour-like scales of the world's only seafaring lizard among the hard landscape of the Galapagos Islands' laval rocks

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Heaviest flying bird makes epic journeys to keep warm

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Heaviest flying bird makes epic journeys to keep warm

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Internal compass points cells towards injury

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Internal compass points cells towards injury

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Stars of Jurassic Park to remain featherless

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The brain: More than one way to map a mind

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The brain: More than one way to map a mind

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Powder women's eggs for home storage

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Powder women's eggs for home storage

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Our enduring love affair with 'flying jewels'

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The brain: Milestones of neuroscience

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The brain: Milestones of neuroscience

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Meteorites could have been source of life's batteries

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Meteorites could have been source of life's batteries

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The brain: From tiny neurons to expansive minds

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The brain: From tiny neurons to expansive minds

How does the brain generate a conscious mind? Such understanding is still far off, but we are getting to grips with many previously intractable problems

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Google doodle exalts artist and scientist Maria Merian

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Quality control opens path to synthetic biology's Ikea

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Ships must kill off the beasties in the ballast water

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Stupidity: What makes people do dumb things

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