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coral spawning

Environment

Coral reefs are now spawning out of sync and might fail to reproduce

Corals need to spawn within minutes of each other to optimise reproduction – but climate change is causing them to spawn out of sync, threatening their survival

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great barrier reef

Environment

Great Barrier Reef now has 'very poor' outlook due to climate change

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Health

People who are naturally slim have smaller and more active fat cells

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Jon Spooner (left) meets Apollo astronaut Al Worden in the Space Shed

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Biologists have a problem with homosexuality – they should get over it

Humans

Biologists have a problem with homosexuality – they should get over it

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Life

Don't miss: Curative comedy, cultural copies and an unlikely fish diet

Culture

bumblebee

Life

Bees' very hairy tongues help them mop up different types of nectar

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whale shark

Life

Endangered whale sharks strain fish out of the water using huge mouths

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jelly-like substance

Life

Early life on Earth may have existed as miniature droplets of jelly

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Why I’m growing bits of human intestine in a dish in the lab

Health

Why I’m growing bits of human intestine in a dish in the lab

The human bowel unfurls to the size of a tennis court – but if stem cell researcher Vivian Li can make just a tiny piece it could revolutionise regenerative medicine

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Definition

Evolution of the eye

Definition

Why do we have sex?

Definition

How did complex life evolve?

Life

The secrets of how sharks survived so many of Earth's mass extinctions

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