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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

Experiments will soon explore ways to emulate the fertilising effect of whale waste, which fuels blooms of algae that feed fish and lock away carbon

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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

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A field of manganese nodules in deep-sea waters near Hawaii.

Environment

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

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A humpback whale

Life

Baleen whales eat three times more krill than we thought

Baleen whales are the largest animals on Earth, and they are even hungrier than we had assumed, which has huge implications for marine ecosystems

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Health

Genetically engineered bacteria could heal us from inside our cells

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Life

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

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Life

Antarctic seal numbers rose and fell with climate over 50,000 years

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Life

We can now bioengineer catnip instead of extracting it from plants

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