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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

Life

13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

Questions that are just as enigmatic now as when we first asked them

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Life

Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal

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A top (dorsal) view of a day 16-19 human embryo

Health

Donated embryo offers rare glimpse of development after implantation

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Birds in the Amazon are adapting to climate change by getting smaller

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Birds in the Amazon are adapting to climate change by getting smaller

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Humans

Our Human Story newsletter: The patterns of domestication

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Eximipriapulus reconstruction

Life

Penis worms had hermit crab-like defence system 530 million years ago

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Brainless sponges have cells that might be the precursors of neurons

Life

Brainless sponges have cells that might be the precursors of neurons

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horned adder (Bitis caudalis), photographed in Namibia

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Vipers evolved either nose or eye horns depending on their habitat

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Male Indri (Indri indri)

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Haunting lemur songs have a rhythm similar to human music

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A family of tuskless elephants

Life

Female African elephants evolved to lose tusks due to ivory poaching

Poaching in Mozambique triggered female elephants in the country to evolve and lose their tusks – but the genetic mutations that cause tusk loss seem to be lethal to male elephants

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Australia's unusual western swamp turtle is an oddity under threat

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T. rex with feathers: China’s fossils are rewriting the dinosaur story

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Humans

Why the ancestors of dogs were our colleagues not friends

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Health

Parasite evolution is making it harder to detect and treat malaria

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