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Are our memories formed by an ancient virus?

'I push people to apply the scientific method to crazy questions'

Tom Ireland speaks to biohacker Andrew Pelling about his unconventional Canadian laboratory, where researchers and artists ask unusual questions about what can be done with living tissues

Crazy horses

In the unusual world of seahorse sex, it's the males that get pregnant. Francisco Otero-Ferrer and William V Holt explain how this is of use in reproductive and developmental studies

How to…Beachcomb

Photographers and naturalists Julie Hatcher and Steve Trewhella explain the basics of beachcombing, and how it contributes to conservation and research

Who was... Kathleen Carpenter?

Catherine Duigan explores the life and times of Dr Kathleen Carpenter, a pioneering scientist known as 'the mother of freshwater ecology'

Inside the killing jar

Adam Hart looks at the ethics of killing insects for science.

A matter of life and... energy?

Lewis Halsey asks if biologists need to look more closely at how and why animals die

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