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Bleached coral

Environment

Algae transplant could protect coral reefs threatened by warming seas

Heat-resistant algae made in a lab seem to protect coral from bleaching. They could help to save reefs if we fail to tackle global warming fast enough

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Seaweed

Health

Kelp is coming: How seaweed could prevent catastrophic climate change

Features

What is life and how did it evolve? We're getting closer to the answer

Video

What is life and how did it evolve? We're getting closer to the answer

Video

What lies beneath: diving to the UK’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef

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What lies beneath: diving to the UK’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef

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The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

Life

The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

Features

Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

Life

Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

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Bats

Life

Bats can learn to copy sounds and it may teach us about human speech

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Great Barrier Reef coral

Environment

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread bleaching yet

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Glowing frog

Life

It turns out loads of frogs and salamanders are fluorescent

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Cyborg grasshopper

Technology

Cyborg grasshoppers have been engineered to sniff out explosives

The super-sensitive smelling ability of American grasshoppers has been used to create biological bomb sniffers, which could prove useful for security purposes

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Humans

Teen born without half her brain has above average reading skills

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Health

Coronavirus: Why infections from animals are such a deadly problem

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Health

A radical idea suggests mental health conditions have a single cause

Features

Life

Some starfish-like animals see without eyes by changing body colour

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