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A volunteer from the North Atlantic Salmon Fund with one of the escapee salmon

Life

On the hunt for thousands of salmon that escaped Icelandic fish farm

Some 3500 salmon have escaped from a fish farm pen in Iceland and now the hunt is on to catch them before they hybridise with the local wild, genetically distinct salmon in the fjords

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Environment

Warm seas blamed for the disappearance of 10 billion snow crabs

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Sea life in the Ordovician period

Life

Ocean life surged 500 million years ago due to cooler sea temperatures

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Cultured MDCK cells

Life

Some of our cells move – and they do it by emitting lots of chemicals

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Alaska brown bear fishing in the Brooks River

Life

Fat Bear Week: How Alaska's brown bears nearly double in size

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Free will

Mind

Free will: Can neuroscience reveal if your choices are yours to make?

Features

Illustration of a Trilobite Gut Fossil.

Life

Ancient trilobite stuffed itself with food almost to bursting point

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box jellyfish

Life

Jellyfish can learn from experience even though they lack a brain

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Health

We now know how many cells there are in the human body

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Nature is a quantum engineer

Physics

Why nature is the ultimate quantum engineer

Historically, researchers believed that quantum properties disappear at the scale of biology, but there is increasing evidence that this isn't the full story, says physicist Clarice Aiello

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Life

Invasive blue crabs are poised to devastate the global clam supply

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Health

Cells from discarded placentas may help to treat heart attacks

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Life

The delightfully bizarre creatures that live near deep-sea vents

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Life

Photos capture mission to rescue seagrass meadows in the the Baltic

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