Health
Laser sets quail embryos’ hearts racing
An infrared laser has been used as an optical pacemaker, tripling the pulse rate of a quail embryo – the technique could one day work in humans too
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Life
Fallible DNA evidence can mean prison or freedom
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Life
Elephants fear humans more than dynamite
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Environment
Thieving parrots hatch a plan to unlock food
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Health
Green light for first embryonic stem cell treatment
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Life
Morphosaurs: How shape-shifting dinosaurs deceived us
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Environment
Zoologger: Horror lizard squirts tears of blood
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Health
Single gene could be key to a baby’s first breath
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Environment
Teenage drivers: why whales smash into boats
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Environment
How does a bowhead whale smell? Quite well, actually
Bowhead whale brains have a fully developed olfactory system, questioning assumptions that the largest animals on Earth have a lousy sense of smell
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Earth
Baby boomer marmots fatten up with climate change
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Environment
Zoologger: Secret to long life found… in a baby dragon
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Environment
Skull tells tale of the lost primates of the Caribbean
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Earth
Super goby helps salvage ocean dead zone
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