Life
Tardigrade genomes help explain how they survive without water
Water bears, or tardigrades, can survive long periods without any water – discovering how they do it could lead to new ways to store vaccines in desiccated form
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Health
Clinic ‘turkey baster’ method may be worth trying before IVF
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Environment
Fish can’t recognise faces if they’re upside down – just like us
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Humans
Our brains always plan one step ahead of our bodies when we walk
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Life
Spider’s web uses optical illusion to lure nocturnal moths
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Health
Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don’t know why
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Environment
Now North Sea cod is sustainable, is it really ok to eat?
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Environment
Giant deep-sea worms may live to be 1000 years old or more
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Mud eel’s wonky body may help it ambush prey
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Life
First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves
Wolves and dogs that are friendliest to people carry mutations in genes with links to sociability, backing the idea that this was key in dog domestication
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Health
At least 75 per cent of our DNA really is useless junk after all
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Environment
The day Hope the whale stole the show
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Environment
150-year-old zombie plants revived after excavating ghost ponds
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Ravens can plan for future as well as 4-year-old children can
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