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The deadly snake fell from the tree with two black-tufted marmosets in its grip – one monkey was probably caught trying to defend its friend

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Instead of taking a full toolkit into space, astronauts could take genetically engineered bacteria to make origami plastic and build the tools themselves

Merging biology with electricity could help us control and direct the growth of crops and trees, or even grow computers in plants

Global deforestation cuts already agreed by corporations could help meet the 2 °C warming target expected at the Paris summit, but progress has been slow

Success will depend on whether claims of the salmon's commercial benefits prove true and if supermarkets change their plans not to stock it

The first-ever record of this tool-wielding behaviour shows the monkeys risking it all for an egg treat hidden deep inside the predator's nest

Its mineral eyes work just like ours and help the creature see predators – but how its small brains process its rock-hard vision is still a mystery

Amazonian women have three fewer children if they are infected with hookworms, but those afflicted by roundworms have two more