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A Gonatus squid eating another squid

Life

Deep-sea squid cannibals battle it out in a fight to the death

Submersibles have caught two species of little-studied Gonatus squid eating each other deep in the waters of California’s Monterey Bay

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Dead carp in a van

Earth

Plan to kill alien carp with herpes could suck life out of river

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life artwork

Life

Life may have emerged not once, but many times on Earth

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Without oxygen from ancient moss you wouldn't be alive today

Earth

Without oxygen from ancient moss you wouldn't be alive today

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Human-animal chimeras may be key to us living healthier lives

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Human-animal chimeras may be key to us living healthier lives

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A Greenland shark

Earth

World’s oldest vertebrate is a shark that may live for 500 years

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Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind

Life

Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind

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Selfish dogs would rather play with a toy than help a human

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Selfish dogs would rather play with a toy than help a human

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A clump of yeast cells

Life

Simple lab life makes an evolutionary leap in a few generations

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Chimneys of iron hydroxide (left) and iron sulphide (right) precipitate out of solution when alkaline fluids feed into these mimics of early Earth oceans

Earth

Genesis in a jar: How chemical gardens may lead us to alien life

Experiments are under way to mimic possible life-forming processes at alkaline vents on the sea floor, and perhaps elsewhere in the solar system

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Humans

Does science undermine human rights?

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Life

Transgender Olympians in Rio don't have an unfair advantage

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Life

Videos reveal the Russian doll parasitic world of the deep seas

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Life

Deep-sea ecosystems still under threat despite UN protection

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