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RoboKrill

Technology

RoboKrill is a one-legged robot that mimics the way krill swim

A robot with appendages that mimic the swimming legs of krill could one day be used to study these key marine food sources or explore hard-to-reach places

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Pacific football fish

Life

Unusual anglerfish glows with bioluminescent and fluorescent light

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Life

Breeding with farmed fish is changing the life cycle of wild salmon

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Mother and daughter

Humans

Babies bond better with strangers when they can smell their mother

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A humpback whale

Life

Baleen whales eat three times more krill than we thought

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Bacillus subtilis

Health

Genetically engineered bacteria could heal us from inside our cells

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A sea cucumber, Chiridota heheva

Life

Sea cucumber has modified genes to help it live on hydrothermal vents

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Mother and baby Antarctic Fur seals

Life

Antarctic seal numbers rose and fell with climate over 50,000 years

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The leaves and flowers of catnip

Life

We can now bioengineer catnip instead of extracting it from plants

Catnip contains a chemical that makes a highly effective insect repellent, but extracting it from plants is expensive. Now it can be produced using genetically engineered yeast

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Life

Sea fireflies adapted their threatening glow to attract mates

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Life

A glimpse at Greenland's deep-sea ecosystems threatened by fishing

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Life

Male bigfin reef squid may be the best fathers of all cephalopods

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Life

Artificially stripped-back cell is still able to rapidly evolve

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