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Whales help to send carbon to the depths of the sea throughout their lives, and also when they die (Credit: Alamy)
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How whales help cool the Earth
By Sophie Yeo
(Credit: Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History)
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The insect that kills 1m people a year
By Jacob Kushner
Though it has fallen out of favour in the West, phages have been in use for more than a century (Credit: Romain Lafabregue/AFP/Getty Images)
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The viruses that fight human diseases
By Pearly Jacob
In 2017, images of vast fields of bicycles began to emerge – a sign that setting up a successful bike share scheme wasn't as easy as it looked (Credit: Getty Images)
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The fate of China's bike share boom

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Fruit bats are Nipah’s natural host (Credit: Getty Images)
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The Cholera in Spain, Fires for disinfecting the Streets of Granada by William Heysham Overend (Credit: Alamy)
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The social distancing manual from 1588
By Zaria Gorvett
Hopefully, face masks will eventually become a rarer sight, but this year they've been defining (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont)
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