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A cluster of deep sea octopus Muusoctopus robustus at Davidson Seamount, off California.

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Deep-sea ‘octopus garden’ has warm water that speeds egg hatching

Thousands of brooding octopus mothers gather at a spot 3200 metres deep off the coast of California because warmer water there dramatically reduces hatching times

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E. coli bacterium. Coloured transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of an Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacterium in the early stages of binary fission, the process by which the bacterium divides. This Gram-negative bacillus (rod-shaped) bacterium normally inhabits the human intestines. Under certain conditions it may undergo rapid division, which increases its numbers to such an extent that it causes infection. E. coli cause 80% of all urinary tract infections, travellers' diarrhoea and gastroenteritis in children. The hair-like appendages around the bacterium are pili, structures used for bacterial conjugation. Magnification: x17,500 at 6x7cm size.

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Nanoparticles can translate chemical signals from bacteria to yeast

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CT2DTA Sperm Whale, Physeter macrocephalus, Caribbean Sea, Dominica

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Scientists want to restore the oceans with artificial whale poo

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DNA computer

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DNA computer could tell you if your drinking water is contaminated

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RoboKrill

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RoboKrill is a one-legged robot that mimics the way krill swim

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Pacific football fish

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Unusual anglerfish glows with bioluminescent and fluorescent light

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Breeding with farmed fish is changing the life cycle of wild salmon

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Hot water drilling

Environment

Remarkable trove of species found living beneath Antarctic ice shelf

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Mother and daughter

Humans

Babies bond better with strangers when they can smell their mother

Maternal body odour signals to babies that they can safely build relationships with other adults, a trait that may have evolved so that mothers can share the load of child rearing

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Environment

Race to start commercial deep-sea mining puts ecosystems at risk

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Baleen whales eat three times more krill than we thought

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Health

Genetically engineered bacteria could heal us from inside our cells

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Sea cucumber has modified genes to help it live on hydrothermal vents

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