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human evolution

A baby looking inquisitively to its left

Health

Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

Do you think of smaller numbers being on the left of larger ones? Even two-day-old babies may think this way, suggesting we’re born with mental number lines

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Letters from Charles Darwin

Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture

A lake in Antarctica where the R1S1 strain of Halorubrum lacusprofundi was discovered

Life

Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from

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Meet the turtles surviving an invasion of enormous tractors

Life

Meet the turtles surviving an invasion of enormous tractors

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Goldfish go months without oxygen by making alcohol inside cells

Life

Goldfish go months without oxygen by making alcohol inside cells

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Turtle-headed sea snake

Earth

Sea snakes are turning black in response to industrial pollution

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face

Humans

The enigma of the face in forming first impressions

Culture

a partially excavated skull

Humans

Ancient skull belonged to a cousin of the ape common ancestor

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farm gate

Earth

Is our environmental future better than we thought?

Culture

Did the first flower look like this?

Life

What the first flower on Earth might have looked like

Some time between 250 and 140 million years ago, the very first flower bloomed – an enormous evolutionary study offers clues about its appearance

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Life

Flatworms can still ‘see’ even after they are decapitated

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Life

Tardigrade genomes help explain how they survive without water

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Life

Mysterious mega-swan once waddled through New Zealand

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Life

See inside the 580-million-year-old creature no one understands

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