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marine biology

Nature_versus_nature

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Nature versus nurture

Are we shaped more by our genes or the environment in which we grow up and live? The truth involves both – and is a lot more complicated than we thought.
Eugenics

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Eugenics

Chromosomes

Definition

Chromosomes

Sick woman with headache with motion sickness.

Definition

Motion sickness

fin whale

Environment

An injured fin whale with no tail has been found in the Mediterranean

News

Why icy moons like Europa are our best bet for finding alien life

Life

Why icy moons like Europa are our best bet for finding alien life

Features

Squid

Life

Genetically altered human cells can vary their transparency like squid

News

The strange physics of why blue jays look blue even though they aren't

Life

The strange physics of why blue jays look blue even though they aren't

Comment

Bleached coral

Environment

Algae transplant could protect coral reefs threatened by warming seas

News

Seaweed

Health

Kelp is coming: How seaweed could prevent catastrophic climate change

From providing a green alternative to plastics to reducing methane emissions and sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, seaweed could be the secret ingredient we need to clean up our planet

Features

Video

What is life and how did it evolve? We're getting closer to the answer

Video

Video

What lies beneath: diving to the UK’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef

Video

Life

Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

Features

Life

The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

Features

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