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Faced with a rapidly changing habitat, polar bears are adapting with a new entrée: For the first time, a polar bear was seen preying on a white-beaked dolphin carcass that had been trapped in the ice in Svalbard.

With the power of an early universe in its control, what will the LHC find next?

No matter how thrilling this movie may be, one question will plague me throughout: where are the dung beetles?

For the first time, scientists have reported polar bears preying on white-beaked dolphins in Svalbard. Check out these stunning photos of the bears and their dolphin meals on an icy island.

One frozen ammonia world is too large even to be a moon, and no one can work out how four others got there. What's their story? (full text available to subscribers)

Much of we thought we knew about the genome is proving too simplistic, show The Deeper Genome and The Developing Genome. New metaphors, anyone?

Everything we thought we knew about the genome is turning out to be wrong as The Deeper Genome and The Developing Genome make clear. New metaphors, anyone?