Life
Eyeless cave shrimp senses light and can live frozen in ice
Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals - and occasionally other organisms - from around the world
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Life
Artificial cell designed in lab reveals genes essential to life
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Life
Small is beautiful: Why a synthetic minimal genome is a big deal
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Humans
The evolution of the nose: why is the human hooter so big?
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Environment
Cute prairie dogs are serial killers savaging ground squirrels
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Life
Nature’s brain: A radical new view of evolution
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Health
Frozen rabbit kidneys could solve organ shortage for transplants
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Right-leg prostheses give sprint para-athletes an edge on bends
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Aquatic plant that feeds like a Venus flytrap faces extinction
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Mind
Rats learn to sense infrared in hours thanks to brain implants
Rat brains quickly adapted to use data from four infrared sensors, allowing them to "see" in the dark and paving the way for augmenting the human brain
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Environment
A beguiling natural history of North America’s great forests
Culture
Health
Florida one step closer to genetically modified mosquito trial
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Evolution acting on older dads is protecting our genetic health
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Cancer reversed in frogs by hacking cells’ electricity with light
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