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Ig Nobel prize winners

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The weird and wacky science that won Ig Nobel prizes this year

Is there a link between income inquality and kissing? And why do alligators make such loud bellows around mating season? Feedback reports from the Ig Nobel prize

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The horn-like knobs on a giraffe's head can be a deadly lightning rod

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The horn-like knobs on a giraffe's head can be a deadly lightning rod

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Goat

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Cloned testicles let goats father the offspring of another male

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The amusing skulduggery-filled tale of how beavers returned to Britain

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The amusing skulduggery-filled tale of how beavers returned to Britain

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sea anemones

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Sea anemones grow more tentacles when they have plenty of food to eat

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Walking catfish may use their whole body to smell when on land

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Walking catfish may use their whole body to smell when on land

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Sea turtles carrying thermometers could improve hurricane forecasts

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Sea turtles carrying thermometers could improve hurricane forecasts

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Social distancing in a park

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Are pets at risk of getting covid-19 and can they spread it to people?

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Long-necked fossil Tanystropheus

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Bizarre fossil with an incredibly long neck was a marine hunter

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Seal lice can survive the pressure found 4000 metres under the sea

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Seal lice can survive the pressure found 4000 metres under the sea

When elephant seals go on long dives, they can reach thousands of metres below the ocean’s surface – and the lice they carry with them can withstand the intense pressure there

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Night lights cause severe loss of sleep for pigeons and magpies

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Hungry foxes have been raiding our bins for thousands of years

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Lockdown is a unique chance to see how human activity affects wildlife

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How do chameleons change colour?

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