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Bacteria in combat

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Vicious microbial warfare helps bacteria evolve cooperation

Bacteria that are more violent towards strangers also seem to share more with similar neighbours, a system that may explain how cooperation first evolved

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Bees entering wooden hive

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Honeybees welcome friendly migrants to hives but repel raiders

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animal museum

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The video installation that makes us swim in our own mess

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antibiotic farms

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Antibiotic resistance spreads from farms to people in China

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Fruit sliced in half to reveal moth

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Plant keeps moths captive inside its fruits for almost a year

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Rock ants

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Ant choosiness reveals they all have different personalities

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embryo

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Embryonic education: How learning begins long before birth

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Stuffed parrots

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London show confirms the natural world is dead. Good riddance

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Spitting archerfish shoot at prey above and beneath the water

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Spitting archerfish shoot at prey above and beneath the water

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Grey fox

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Foxes may confuse predators by rubbing themselves in puma scent

Gray foxes in the mountains of California rub in the scent of pumas, possibly to absorb their smell and confuse predators to give themselves a chance to run

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Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago

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Harvester ants farm by planting seeds to eat once they germinate

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Fish lure snails to their nest to help camouflage their babies

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Mice turn into killers when brain circuit is triggered by laser

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