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Cannibal spiders have strange trick to stop their siblings eating them
Some spider species eat their siblings, especially when food is scarce David VILLA/SCIENCEIMAGE CBI CNRS A species of spider avoids…
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Largest ever US honeybee die-off has destroyed 1.6 million colonies
Honeybees are vulnerable to seasonal die-offs Nicholas Klein/Alamy Honeybees in the US may have just experienced their most severe die-off…
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Washed-up clothing mimics seaweed in stunning cyanotypes
Mandy Barker’s “T-shirt Delesseria tunic ictus” Mandy Barker Nearly two centuries ago, botanist and pioneering photographer Anna Atkins‘s influential book,…
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Kennedy has taken a sledgehammer to the US's public health
The US anti-vaccine movement is now firmly embedded in the highest levels of government, where those overseeing public health agencies…
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Artificial sweetener boosts hunger cues in the brain
The artificial sweetener sucralose may stoke hunger rather than abate it Antonio Guillem Fernandez/Alamy People report being hungrier after consuming…
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Mammoth tusk flakes may be the oldest ivory objects made by humans
A mammoth skeleton at the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany DANIEL NAUPOLD/dpa/Alamy Archaeologists excavating 400,000-year-old rock in…
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Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans
A female bonobo at Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Lukas Bierhoff, Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project…
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We could make solar panels on the moon by melting lunar dust
A boot print on the dusty surface of the moon Public domain sourced / access rights from CBW / Alamy…
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A bestseller is born: How Zuckerberg discovered the Streisand Effect
Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe…
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The Explorer’s Gene review: Our drive for adventure and challenge has ancient origins
The drive to explore has taken humans to most of the habitable planet Marco Bottigelli/Getty Images The Explorer’s GeneAlex Hutchinson (Mariner…
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