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Rare half-female, half-male cricket leads a complicated life
An extremely rare cricket with female sex organs but male wings  – known as a gynandromorph – could tell us more about how sex differences arise
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Humans
A new shape called the scutoid has been discovered in our cells
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Environment
Biodiversity may prove to be the defining issue of our age
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Is life on Earth really at risk? The truth about the extinction crisis
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Environment
What happens when you seal eight people in a giant bubble?
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Tiny mitochondria may be controlling genes in heart of our cells
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Cycling race footage highlights climate change effects on trees
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Health
How old could humans get? We probably haven’t hit the limit yet
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Health
First evidence that gut bacteria help wire young brains
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Earth
Cocaine in the water makes eels hyperactive and damages muscles
There are low levels of cocaine and other drugs in many rivers, and lab studies suggest that European eels are suffering muscle damage as a result
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Humans
Consciousness: How we’re solving a mystery bigger than our minds
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Male peacocks can make females’ heads vibrate at a distance
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Earth
The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought
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Life
Bacteria may survive temperatures hot enough to melt lead
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