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whale skin

Life

Sperm whale's skin comes off during mass 'scratchathon'

A transparent chunk of skin got rubbed off during a short period when dozens of the animals gathered, apparently to socialise and groom each other

Regulars

Woman is having her stomach scanned via ultrasound

Health

Timing when you get pregnant could prevent a miscarriage

News

A man looking exhausted

Life

Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome

News

visitors looking at iCub

Technology

Science Museum’s Robots: Who is really pulling the strings?

Culture

Volunteers attending to stranded whales in New Zealand, 10 February 2017

Life

400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach

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Dog being petted

Life

Monkeys and dogs judge humans by how they treat others

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Dolphins playing with hoops

Life

Synchronised swimming seems to make dolphins more optimistic

News

pills

Health

Why some people with HIV can now ditch condoms

Insight

Boat on dried-up lake floor

Life

Massive lake drained for hydropower leaves dry bed and no fish

News

White-faced capuchin monkeys

Life

Being friendly puts monkeys at risk in times of revolution

The young of sociable female capuchin monkeys survive better in times of peace, but are more likely to be killed when the group is going through a change of leadership

News

Health

New HIV infections in gay men have dropped by a third in England

News

Health

What Trump's US Supreme Court pick means for women's health

Comment

Life

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, the man who shaped biology and art

Culture

Life

Chimps beat up, murder and then cannibalise their former tyrant

News