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Ants use tools to collect honey

Life

Ants craft tiny sponges to dip into honey and carry it home

Non-expandable stomachs mean these ants need to use absorbent tools to transport tasty liquids to their nests – and they figure out the best objects for the job

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Health

It’s time to bust the myth that a healthy diet has to be costly

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Let’s hope UK’s soft drink tax cuts obesity and diabetes rates

Health

Let’s hope UK’s soft drink tax cuts obesity and diabetes rates

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Space

Were Aboriginal Australians the first astronomers?

Features

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Humans

How the rules of long-lost board games take us inside ancient minds

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Humans

No more drama: The game theory guide to a happy family holiday

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Life

Reindeer riddle: How do you tell caribou apart?

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Technology

Don’t believe the Skype: We never wanted to video call people

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Humans

Holiday brain-off round 4: Demonstrate the wisdom of the ages

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Life

Tree of life: How figs built the world and will help save it

From clothing Adam and Eve to linking the Maasai with heaven, the fig tree appears in countless origin myths. Discover the source of its exceptional powers

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Technology

Medieval wax seals are giving up fresh historical secrets

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Physics

The fragile state of scientific glassblowing

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Technology

Why predictive text is making you forget how to write

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Life

Comb jelly videos are rewriting the history of your anus

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