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A meaning to life: How a sense of purpose can keep you healthy

It helps prevent heart attack and stroke, staves off dementia, enables people to sleep better, have better sex and live longer. Oh, and it’s free

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whale shark

Life

Whale sharks' secrets revealed by live-tracking aquatic drones

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Grey fox

Life

Foxes may confuse predators by rubbing themselves in puma scent

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A harbour seal

Life

Seals hunt down hidden fish by sensing their breath in the sand

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An adult gorilla holding a young gorilla

Life

Majority of primate species may vanish in next 25 to 50 years

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Cellular recovery: How self-help could aid the damaged brain

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Life

Breath of life: Did animals evolve without oxygen?

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Pink bacterium with purple background

Life

Electronic gene control could let us plug bacteria into devices

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Scimitar-horned oryx in Chad

Life

Antelope revived in Sahara years after going extinct in the wild

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Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago

High levels of oceanic oxygen could have allowed advanced, animal-like life to develop for the first time – only to be wiped out again as oxygen vanished

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Life

Harvester ants farm by planting seeds to eat once they germinate

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Life

First ever video of an elusive new ruby seadragon filmed in wild

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Life

Mice turn into killers when brain circuit is triggered by laser

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Life

Largest ever shark was doomed by its taste for dwarf whales

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