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Voice almighty: Decoding speech's secret signals

Life

Voice almighty: Decoding speech's secret signals

Your dulcet tones affect everything from your sex appeal to your bank balance. But they can also wildly misrepresent you, finds Tiffany O'Callaghan

Features

Control sex for humanity's future

Life

Control sex for humanity's future

CultureLab

The strange ape that's rewriting our family tree

Life

The strange ape that's rewriting our family tree

Features

Starfish eyes are good enough to show them the way home

Life

Starfish eyes are good enough to show them the way home

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Flowers have been at funerals for 13,000 years

Life

Flowers have been at funerals for 13,000 years

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Ready, aim, throw! Lobbing rocks key to meat-eating

Life

Ready, aim, throw! Lobbing rocks key to meat-eating

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Oldest animal genome is sequenced from horse bone

Life

Oldest animal genome is sequenced from horse bone

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Snail shell stripes reveal Irish origins

Life

Snail shell stripes reveal Irish origins

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Life

The battle to find a cure for every cancer is evolving

Opinion

Rapid evolution of tumours may be their Achilles' heel

Life

Rapid evolution of tumours may be their Achilles' heel

One man's sacrifice has revealed how his cancer mutated from its emergence to its last lethal change, opening the door to a Darwinian approach to therapy

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Life

Prehistoric armoured fish had the world's first abs

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Earth

Missing rock fuelled Cambrian explosion of life

Opinion

Earth

Everest's final frontier: Life without oxygen

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Life

Hungry algae may explain how plants became green

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