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Anna Atkins was an English botanist and photographer, best known for being the first person to produce a book illustrated ...

As Chris Packham gears up for his new TV show, Evolution, he tells Penny Sarchet why understanding the latest evolutionary ...

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A series of experiments shows that bees respond differently to tastes depending on their internal states, hinting that they ...

A cave on the Turkish Mediterranean coast was inhabited first by Neanderthals and then Homo sapiens, but the continuity of ...

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