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Ageing and death
Demystifying death – a palliative care specialist’s practical guide to life’s end
4 minutes
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Biology
Explore a bioluminescent world of cellular life via cutting-edge microscopy
27 minutes
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Biology
In 1886, a US agency set out to record new fruit varieties. The results are wondrous
5 minutes
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Biology
To understand how an animal sees the world, start with the shape of its pupils
5 minutes
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Animals and humans
Scientists brought a wild horse back from extinction. But is it truly the same animal?
5 minutes
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Ecology and environmental sciences
The grassroots project that’s restoring an endangered Hawaiian ecosystem
22 minutes
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Biology
The key to geckos’ unrivalled climbing skills isn’t sticky feet. It’s subatomic
4 minutes
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Space exploration
In the search for life, might alien ocean worlds be a better bet than Earth-like planets?
5 minutes
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Biology
A dazzling slice-by-slice exploration of wood exposes hidden patterns and hues
2 minutes
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Biology
Octopus time
We humans are forward-facing, gravity-bound plodders. Can the liquid motion of the octopus radicalise our ideas about time?
David Borkenhagen
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Biology
The idea that life on Earth originated elsewhere is not as far out as it seems
6 minutes
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Biology
Flicker through the eclectic beauty and biological diversity of 2,400 leaves
3 minutes
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Biotechnology
What it’s like to wear a prosthetic that ‘feels’
6 minutes
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Biology
To understand the limits of human senses, look to the wild world of animal cognition
45 minutes
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Evolution
Symmetry rules life on Earth – but it comes with many fascinating exceptions
9 minutes
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Biology
There’s no one way for an insect to fly, but they’re all amazing in close up and slo-mo
7 minutes
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Evolution
Fortune favours the shrewd
Attaining and maintaining power lies at the heart of almost all animal societies. And it’s as devious as human politicking
Lee Alan Dugatkin
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Biology
Dazzling timelapse shows how microbes spoil our food – and sometimes enrich it
22 minutes
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Biology
Like pop music, humpback whale songs spread, mutate, and fall out of fashion
9 minutes
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Biology
A touch of moss
Inside a rainforest or on the city pavement, moss asks so little yet offers so much: a tactile encounter with time itself
Nikita Arora
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Biology
Journey deep into the Philippine forest in search of the world’s largest, rarest eagle
95 minutes
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Biology
Seeing life
Driven by insatiable curiosity, early histologists revealed the hidden structures of cells in works of sensual artistry
Benjamin Ehrlich
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Ageing and death
Death is a trip – how new research links near-death and DMT experiences
9 minutes
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Experience the dazzling displays that fireflies create when humans are far away
5 minutes