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The amazing ways electricity in your body shapes you and your health

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The amazing ways electricity in your body shapes you and your health

Your cells crackle with electric signals that guide embryonic development and heal wounds. If we can learn to tweak this “bioelectric code”, we might be able to prevent cancer and even grow new limbs

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Bark beetles use the smell of fungus to pick the best trees to infest

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Nautilus samoaensis

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Three nautilus species new to science have been found in the Pacific

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Cancer cells of different sizes

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The size of skin cancer cells may affect how they respond to treatment

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Crabs and lobsters on a beach

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Crab deaths on UK coast may be caused by unknown disease, finds report

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Screenshot of livestream of bald eagles Jackie and Shadow nesting in a pine tree in California. Credit: Friends of Big Bear Valley

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Watch rare livestream of bald eagles nesting on eggs in California

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common starfish, common European seastar (Asterias rubens), at an underwater plant, view from above - Image ID: 2M0FA0C (RM)

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Marine heatwaves could wipe out all common sea stars by 2100

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Frontal side view of the head of a juvenile Carpet-, or Diamond python, a species occurring throughout most of Australia; Shutterstock ID 696146398; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Scientists finally found the clitoris on snakes – and there are two

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Pair of vaquita sighted during 2008 survey in Gulf of California

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Mexico’s latest plan to save endangered vaquitas could backfire

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Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii) Credit: Jens Rydell

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Bats and death metal singers use the same throat structure to growl

Daubenton’s bats use false vocal folds in their throat to produce a lower frequency grunt for communication – the same structure that lets death metal singers growl

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Tiny clam that was thought to be extinct found alive

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Ants have evolved to farm plants on at least 15 separate occasions

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Erect-crested penguins always reject their first egg and lay another

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Dredging in crucial habitat sparks row over UK marine protected areas

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