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A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one

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A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one

Legalising the trade in rhino horn from South Africa could match black market supply and maybe even double it, with the aim of driving poachers out of business

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Kitchen counter bio-lab lets you make edible gloop from cells

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Kitchen counter bio-lab lets you make edible gloop from cells

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Dark-eyed junco

Life

Female birds that used to be silent are now singing like males

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Pistol shrimp

Life

How a tiny shrimp fires a savage shock wave using just its claw

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Mussels

Life

Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour

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Oysters

Life

Oysters can ‘hear’ the ocean even though they don’t have ears

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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A tui singing in a tree

Life

Songbird gets angry when its rivals are brilliant at singing

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Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

Life

Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

There is an urban myth that dogs can smell human emotions, now it seems to be true: dogs can sense a person’s emotional state just by sniffing a sample of their sweat

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Life

Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends

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Technology

Too much information? The data-driven future of health

Culture

Life

The bourgeois biologist who sparked Russia's genetics revolution

Features

Life

Museum safari: The myriad unknown species lost in dusty drawers

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