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Trees may have a ‘heartbeat’ that is so slow we never noticed it
Trees repeatedly move their branches up and down during the night, and this may reflect water being pumped along the branches – just like a human pulse
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Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them
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Male fruit flies feel pleasure when they ejaculate
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Flies cool themselves down by constantly blowing bubbles of spit
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UK failing child refugees because we can’t reliably verify age
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Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’
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Earth
World’s biggest bird feeder will use 500 tonnes of shellfish
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These fish hide fluorescent switchblades in their faces
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Life
Species with big sex differences are more likely to die out
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Life
Making babies: How to create human embryos with no egg or sperm
Artificial wombs and embryos made from skin cells – remarkable new techniques could revolutionise reproductive biology and help bring an end to infertility
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Wasps drum with their stomachs to tell each other about food
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Palm trees have been spotted changing sex for the first time
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Biology’s moonshot: The mission to decode the DNA of all life
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Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs
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