Hagfish gulped up in first video of deep-sea seal hunt
Watch the first sighting of a seal's underwater eating habits spotted by a teenager watching a live video feed
World's oldest portrait reveals the ice-age mind
A 26,000-year-old carved ivory head of a woman is not just an archaeological find - a new exhibition in London wants us to see works like this as art
Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way
Forget the Pole Star: on moonless nights dung beetles use the Milky Way to follow a straight path with their dung ball
Stress's impact can affect future generations' genes
DNA analysis has yielded the first direct evidence that chemical marks which disable genes in response to stress can be passed on to offspring
Uncharted territory: Where digital maps are leading us
The way we use maps is evolving fast, says Kat Austen, and it will change a great deal more than how we navigate
Feedback: Tales of the stony turd industry
Fossilised faeces in Shitlington, confusing railway notices, organic water, and more
Duolingo gives language learning a jump start
First evidence that Duolingo, a new website that helps you learn a language while translating the web, actually works
Dolphins form life raft to help dying friend
A group of dolphins was caught on camera as they worked together to keep a struggling dolphin above water by forming an impromptu raft
Zoologger: Supercool squirrels go into the deep freeze
Hibernating Arctic ground squirrels drop their body temperatures to -4 °C, and shut their circadian clocks off for the winter
Greek economic crisis has cleared the air
The ongoing collapse of Greece's economy has caused a significant fall in air pollution, which can be detected by satellites
Body armour to scale up by mimicking flexible fish
Armour that is designed like the scales of the dragon fish could keep soldiers protected - while still letting them bend
Astrophile: Split personality tarnishes pulsars' rep
Pulsars were seen as cosmic timekeepers, but the quirky way in which one example shines suggests we can't take their behaviour for granted
Shrinking proton puzzle persists in new measurement
The most precise experiment yet to find the proton's radius confirms that it can appear smaller than our theories predict - is new physics needed?
Tight squeeze forces cells to take their medicine
A short sharp squash in these channels and a cell's membrane pops open - good news when you want to slip a molecule or nanoparticle in there
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