Fish adapted to the deep sea 80 million years earlier than we thought
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Europa’s underground ocean seems to have the carbon necessary for life
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The strange plant that just might be the worst smell on the planet
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Young seabird couples get ‘divorced’ with little immediate benefit
Thick-billed murres normally pair up for life and reunite each year to...
Eris and Makemake might be hiding unexpected oceans of liquid water
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Suppressing worrying thoughts may improve our mental health
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Human noise pollution drives monkeys to rely on communication by scent
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Corkscrew-shaped microbot uses sound to spiral through vessels
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‘Dark earth’ made by Amazon farmers stores carbon for centuries
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Rishi Sunak’s weakening of UK net-zero policy is an unhelpful delay
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