This week we’re asking whether science can solve one of the world’s greatest conspiracy theories, checking if groundhogs can live forever, delving into Greek myths to find out more about butterflies, being dazzled by a new shade of blue, electrifying ourselves with some genuinely stunning eel research, and finding out what the world’s tiniest chameleon’s rather large secret is.

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Gaume and Puzrin (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00081-8

Glaw et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80955-1

O’Mara et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.042

Yang et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SM01230K

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