Flying Down the Track
World-class athletes of both sexes cover 100 metres in about 10 seconds. What percentage of this is spent not touching the ground? And what's the figure for a 2-hour marathon?
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Life
Master mimic insect is indistinguishable from a leaf on forest floor
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Time travel to Augusts past: cold cod, thawing mammoths, frozen nerves
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Feedback: Firefighters called in to deal with hot chips in Texas
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Mixed leaf salad
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Necking it
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Life
Meet Bob the tame flamingo who has become a local superstar
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Technology
Clean up your act with a clock that knows when you last vacuumed
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Cracked it
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Plant life
A recent New Scientist article, "The most ancient piece of you" (4 November 2017), discussed the common ancestors of living beings today. But are plants included in this universal common ancestor? If so, are we linked to plants in very early stages of evolution?
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Feedback: Paper on canine consent gives a journal paws for thought
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Space
See the bright lights and spectacular colours of our shining universe
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Flight of imagination
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Red leaf, yellow leaf
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