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Pasta spirals link neutron stars and the machinery of your cells

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Pasta spirals link neutron stars and the machinery of your cells

A balancing act between forces forms similar structures inside cells and dense stellar corpses, suggesting links between astrophysics and life on Earth

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Bee on mouldy plant

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Bees collect honeydew from bugs before spring blossoms arrive

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Desert lizard can sip water from sand through its feet and back

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Desert lizard can sip water from sand through its feet and back

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Disgust

Health

A bit of disgust can change how confident you feel

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Plants ‘see’ underground by channelling light to their roots

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Plants ‘see’ underground by channelling light to their roots

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Dead vaquita in net

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Last-ditch effort to save the world’s smallest porpoise agreed

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Fish swims to the same nest each year just like migrating birds

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Fish swims to the same nest each year just like migrating birds

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Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

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Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

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Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

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Invading giant geckos get stuck on a single building

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Woman sleeping in meadow

Humans

Why rest and relaxation are such a serious business

Hard work and rest sound like opposites, but it’s much more complex, says Mary Halton, after visiting a new exhibition and exploring a new book

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Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses

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Spider-eating bug muffles web vibrations to sneak up on prey

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Life

Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal

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Humans

Is it time to allow more than two parents on birth certificates?

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