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Heavy metal poisoning may be changing birds’ personalities

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Heavy metal poisoning may be changing birds’ personalities

Great tits exposed to toxic metals like cadmium and lead alter their behaviour, becoming less exploratory and more cautious, suggesting their personalities have been reshaped

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Male balding may be cured by injecting epilepsy drug into scalp

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Male balding may be cured by injecting epilepsy drug into scalp

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is gobbling up ever more plastic

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is gobbling up ever more plastic

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Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

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Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

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Medicine for sick koalas turns out to actually kill them

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Medicine for sick koalas turns out to actually kill them

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Why ancient deer returned to the sea and became whales

Life

Why ancient deer returned to the sea and became whales

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Technology

Electrodes fitted behind your ear can make you walk faster

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Our ancestors mated with the mystery 'Denisovan' people – twice

Humans

Our ancestors mated with the mystery 'Denisovan' people – twice

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These searing hot chilli peppers are in danger thanks to snakes

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These searing hot chilli peppers are in danger thanks to snakes

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broccoli farm

Life

Two herbivores gang up and silence a plant's cries for help

Caterpillar presence mutes broccoli's production of chemicals that attract aphid parasitoids, allowing both pests to wreak havoc

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Humans

New shades: The controversial quest to 'fix' colour blindness

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Life

Dinobird Archaeopteryx only flew in short bursts like a pheasant

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Health

What are Novichok nerve agents and did Russia do it?

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Life

Daft male spiders prefer females who are more likely to eat them

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