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A honey bee visits a white sage plant. Researchers have shown that pollination by honey bees, which are not native to the Americas, produces offspring of considerably inferior quality (lower fitness) than offspring resulting from native pollinators.

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Plants pollinated by non-native honeybees are less likely to survive

Honeybees brought to the US from Europe and Africa tend to move pollen between flowers on the same plant more than native bees do. This appears to lower the quality of some plants鈥� offspring

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Space

Our solar system could be hiding an extra planet the size of Uranus

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A small number of people in Florida and Texas have contracted malaria

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What we know so far about the malaria cases in Florida and Texas

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Environment

Record-setting heatwave bakes US South and Mexico

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A microscope image showing some of the spherules

Space

Interstellar meteor fragments may have been found in the Pacific Ocean

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A scanning electron micrograph of blood from someone with iron deficiency anaemia, showing irregularly-shaped, small red blood cells

Health

Almost 40 per cent of US girls and young women have low iron levels

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Technology

Watch a transforming robot roll, crawl, stand up and fly

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Some orangutans use calls that involve making two sounds at once

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Orangutans can make two sounds at once like a beatboxer

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Environment

Antarctic sea life under threat as talks on protected areas fail

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Technology

Inside the gigafactory producing the greenest batteries in the world

Northvolt says that its massive factory in Sweden will soon produce enough batteries each year to power a million electric cars, with a much smaller carbon footprint than those made in China

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Health

Fasting diets are not better than calorie counting for weight loss

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Life

Dolphins ‘talk’ to their young in a higher pitch, just like humans do

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Life

Megalodon may have been warm-blooded unlike most other sharks

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Mind

How does consciousness arise? A 25-year-old bet has now been decided

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