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Wikie a killer whale, swims with her calf in Marineland aquatic park

Life

‘Speaking’ orca is further proof they shouldn’t be kept captive

An orca called Wikie who learned to mimic human speech could teach us a lot about killer whale culture – but that’s no reason to keep orcas in captivity

Analysis

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Health

Time for the UK to stop dithering and add folic acid to bread

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Art history AI sees links between hundreds of years of paintings

Technology

Art history AI sees links between hundreds of years of paintings

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Chimps are now dying of the common cold and they are all at risk

Earth

Chimps are now dying of the common cold and they are all at risk

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Technology

Powerful or powerless: The backdoor to our cyberfuture

Culture

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Humans

A new book says the pace of genomic innovation is problematic

Culture

What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?

Life

What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?

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Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, first cloned monkeys

Life

51��s have cloned monkeys and it could help treat cancer

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Australia's A$60 million plan for Great Barrier Reef won't work

Earth

Australia's A$60 million plan for Great Barrier Reef won't work

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Humans

Planet and people: new books for Anthropocene times

Fully embracing our connectedness with the biosphere will take rethinking how we see our objects and a new legal framework, argue two new books

Culture

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A capsized oil tanker is releasing invisible toxins into the sea

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Life

Trophy: Is hunting really the only way to save big game?

Culture

Humans

Sniff the apocalypse: An art show with perfume for the end times

Culture

Space

The books and ideas that will shape the year ahead

Culture