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Life

Everyone's a queen: The ant species with no males or workers

Temnothorax kinomurai, a parasitic ant species found in Japan, reproduces asexually and all of its young develop into queens that try to take over other ants’ colonies

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Life

Microbe with the smallest genome yet pushes the boundaries of life

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Humans

The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human

Features

Humans

Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why

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Photos of a newborn infant being carefully cradled by the medical professional helping to deliver it. The photos are taken from the perspective of the parent giving birth.

Humans

Why is childbirth so hard for humans – and is it getting even harder?

Features

The best new popular science books of February 2026

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The best new popular science books of February 2026

Culture

Life

Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old ecosystem

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Life

Why did magic mushrooms evolve? We may finally have the answer

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Procoptodon prehistoric kangaroo

Life

Ancient giant kangaroos could have hopped despite their huge size

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Life

Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes

Extraordinary fossils of 518-million-year-old jawless fish, among the earliest known vertebrates, appear to show that these animals had two pairs of eyes

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Humans

Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought

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Life

Octopuses prompt rethink of why animals evolve big brains

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Humans

Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans

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Life

Jellyfish sleep about as much as humans do – and nap like us too

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