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Humans use their eyes constantly while communicating with others. Eye movements can be gestures, so that when we see someone glance to the side, we look in the same direction. Eyes can also be a warning…
Environmental psychologists have long known that encounters with the natural world are good for us. But nature can now also be found in our virtual lives – in the photos we share online, the games we play…
An increasing weakness with age is not a law of nature. Most look at ageing as a process from young and healthy to becoming…
The idea behind biodiversity offsets is to develop a new way of preserving nature that more accurately accounts for the value to us of the natural world. The abundance and diversity of plants and animals…
The sudden death on Friday of the Irish Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney has focused international minds and media on the power of poetry to affect our lives. This is especially true from an environmental…
Toxic industrial pollutants contaminate bird eggs in Australia’s major eastern cities at levels seven to nine times higher…
Genetic variation persists through generations, rather than being bred out in an evolution towards a “perfect type”, shows…
While researchers have already known for a long time that dolphins associate in the equivalent of human “mum’s clubs”, the…
The efficiency of the Komodo Dragon bite is a combination of highly specialised serrated teeth and venom, say researchers…
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