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Mother and daughter

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Babies bond better with strangers when they can smell their mother

Maternal body odour signals to babies that they can safely build relationships with other adults, a trait that may have evolved so that mothers can share the load of child rearing

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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

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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

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a lone female ostracod Photeros annecohenae (Anne's sea firefly) releasing bioluminescence. This photo was taken by Elliot Lowndes (https://mrlowndes.com) in our lab, and he should be credited upon use of this photo. This is a composite photo, combining the animal itself and its bioluminescence, taken separately

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Sea fireflies adapted their threatening glow to attract mates

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A grenadier fish swimming along the sea floor near an anemone

Life

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

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

Life

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

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Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 cells

Life

Artificially stripped-back cell is still able to rapidly evolve

An artificial “minimal cell” that has had all but the most essential genes stripped out can evolve and adapt to its surroundings just as fast as a normal cell

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Humans

Richard Lewontin: Pioneering evolutionary biologist dies aged 92

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Life

Complex social lives of orcas revealed by drone observations

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Life

Female seahorses cheat on their mate when they can no longer smell him

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Life

The deep sea hosts twice as many shapes of fish as shallow waters

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