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Synthetic iris could let cameras react to light like our eyes do

Technology

Synthetic iris could let cameras react to light like our eyes do

The iris in our eyes shrinks the pupil in bright light and enlarges it in the dark, and now an artificial version could do the same for both eyes and cameras

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Pieces of cabbage

Health

Special cells explain why cabbage and stress churn your guts

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Italy’s drying lakes imperil rare shrimp species found only here

Earth

Italy’s drying lakes imperil rare shrimp species found only here

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Marine zooplankton

Earth

Oil-exploration airguns punch 2-kilometre-wide holes in plankton

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Radio powered by your own sweat hints at future of wearables 

Technology

Radio powered by your own sweat hints at future of wearables 

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LA’s endangered pumas to be saved by a $60m bridge over highway

Life

LA’s endangered pumas to be saved by a $60m bridge over highway

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A cougar kitten with a mule deer in its mouth

Life

Talk radio puts pumas off their meals so they may kill more deer

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World’s largest annual wildlife drowning boosts river ecosystem

Earth

World’s largest annual wildlife drowning boosts river ecosystem

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Wise elk learn to outsmart hunters and tell apart their weapons

Life

Wise elk learn to outsmart hunters and tell apart their weapons

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sculptures

Humans

A series of fortunate events: How our culture made us

We now accept culture drove our extraordinary success as a species, but how? A compelling new account brings us up to speed with the story so far

Culture

Life

Fish recognise friends and foes through their unique faces

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Life

Two-headed porpoise caught in fishing net is first ever found

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Life

‘Devil weeds’ threaten wildebeest migrations in Serengeti

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Life

Rubber algae help create first artificial reef in Mediterranean

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