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cell electricity

Life

Animal Electricity: How the forces inside cells actually behave

When it comes to understanding how electricity works at cell level in living creatures, we need more popular science reads like Robert Campenot's one

CultureLab

Bionic fingertip gives amputee a feel for different textures

Technology

Bionic fingertip gives amputee a feel for different textures

News

Chimp holding big stone at foot of tree

Life

What do chimp ‘temples’ tell us about the evolution of religion?

News

A woman looking anxious as she stands by a window

Life

Anxious people hear some sounds as more important than they are

News

A gorup of women in costumes laughing

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Shock of good news can hurt your heart as much as grief

News

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Humans

I’m creating telepathy technology to get brains talking

Opinion

snapper spawn

Life

Mass of spawning fish make a milky way on a coral reef

Regulars

A small plastic bottle marked as containing a sample of the Zika virus

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Zika virus likely to cause paralysing Guillain-Barré syndrome

News

The different kinds of stickleback fish side by side

Life

Super-fast evolving fish splitting into two species in same lake

News

Three long-finned pilot whales underwater. They look mid-size, for a whale, and have stubby noses. Their fins do look quite long, and curvy

Life

Whale algorithm could unlock secrets of their many dialects

Could we speak whale one day? A whale song algorithm can pick up their different dialects and could help work out how they communicate with one another

News

Life

Squid filmed using their ink clouds as smokescreen to catch prey

News

Life

Glow-in-the-dark bacterial lights could illuminate shop windows

News

Life

Wild gorillas compose happy songs that they hum during meals

News

Life

The crying game: How tears can work for you

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