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Life

Drone captures humpback whales catching krill with bubbles

It’s the climax of a sophisticated technique called bubble-net hunting – the trapping of krill using columns of bubbles that the whales exhale via their blowholes

Regulars

A heart-shaped cake

Humans

Valentine’s Day seems to cause a mini baby-boom 9 months later

News

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Life

What is our place in the natural world?

Culture

prosthetics

Life

Life lessons: The tiny neuro-gadgets rebuilding our bodies

Culture

Cotton swab in mouth

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I got DNA tested to see if I would pass on diseases to my kids

News

We can now read the whole genome of a fetus in the womb

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We can now read the whole genome of a fetus in the womb

News

A pregnant woman with a glass of water in one hand and a pill in the other

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Pregnant women have to navigate a minefield of painkiller advice

Analysis

Renewables now generate more electricity than coal in Europe

Earth

Renewables now generate more electricity than coal in Europe

News

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Humans

Primate archaeology: Digging up secrets of the monkey Stone Age

Features

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The love drug that could draw people away from any addiction

The "cuddle chemical" oxytocin boosts social bonds. Soon a version of it will be tested in pill form to see if it can reset the brain wiring that gets us hooked

Features

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Defence strategies: How immunology took its great leap forward

Culture

Life

‘Speaking’ orca is further proof they shouldn’t be kept captive

Analysis

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Time for the UK to stop dithering and add folic acid to bread

Comment

Earth

Chimps are now dying of the common cold and they are all at risk

News

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