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Humans

Our brains always plan one step ahead of our bodies when we walk

A brief glimpse of upcoming terrain one stride ahead of time enables your brain to make sure your next footfall hits the right spot

News

A fishing boat

Earth

Australia to expand commercial fishing in marine sanctuaries

News

Spider's web uses optical illusion to lure nocturnal moths

Life

Spider's web uses optical illusion to lure nocturnal moths

News

A salmon swimming upriver to spawn

Life

Baby salmon with ‘old’ DNA more likely to survive epic migration

News

Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

Health

Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why

News

Man holding cod

Life

Now North Sea cod is sustainable, is it really ok to eat?

Analysis

Giant deep-sea worms may live to be 1000 years old or more

Life

Giant deep-sea worms may live to be 1000 years old or more

News

Mud eel's wonky body may help it ambush prey

Life

Mud eel's wonky body may help it ambush prey

News

First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves

Life

First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves

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People looking through window at a hopsital nursery with abies in cots

Life

At least 75 per cent of our DNA really is useless junk after all

After decades of arguing whether junk DNA exists, a study has calculated that without it we’d all have to reproduce in huge numbers to escape harmful mutations

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Life

The day Hope the whale stole the show

Culture

Life

150-year-old zombie plants revived after excavating ghost ponds

News

Life

Ravens can plan for future as well as 4-year-old children can

News

Life

Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence

Features