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The amazing ways electricity in your body shapes you and your health

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The amazing ways electricity in your body shapes you and your health

Your cells crackle with electric signals that guide embryonic development and heal wounds. If we can learn to tweak this “bioelectric code”, we might be able to prevent cancer and even grow new limbs

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Bark beetles use the smell of fungus to pick the best trees to infest

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crustacean larvae

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Prawn larvae conceal their eyes with reflectors to hide from predators

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Nautilus samoaensis

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Three nautilus species new to science have been found in the Pacific

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Cancer cells of different sizes

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The size of skin cancer cells may affect how they respond to treatment

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https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/mineral-laden-water-emerging-hydrothermal-vent Mineral-laden water emerging from a hydrothermal vent on the Niua underwater volcano in the Lau Basin, southwest Pacific Ocean. As the water cools, minerals precipitate to form tower-like ?chimneys.? Image taken during 2016 cruise ?Virtual Vents.?

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The mysterious underwater avalanches reshaping Earth

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Crabs and lobsters on a beach

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Crab deaths on UK coast may be caused by unknown disease, finds report

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Screenshot of livestream of bald eagles Jackie and Shadow nesting in a pine tree in California. Credit: Friends of Big Bear Valley

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Watch rare livestream of bald eagles nesting on eggs in California

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common starfish, common European seastar (Asterias rubens), at an underwater plant, view from above - Image ID: 2M0FA0C (RM)

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Marine heatwaves could wipe out all common sea stars by 2100

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Illustration of a group of ichthyosaurs

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Ichthyosaurs used a barren region of the ocean as an ancient nursery

Marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs, which resembled whales and dolphins, seem to have gathered to give birth in a quiet ocean area with no predators

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Environment

How a US civil war shipwreck became a template for marine conservation

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Life

Scientists finally found the clitoris on snakes – and there are two

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Mexico’s latest plan to save endangered vaquitas could backfire

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Life

Bats and death metal singers use the same throat structure to growl

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