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Life

Darwin and DNA: How genetics spurred the evolution of a theory

Mendel and Darwin lived at the same time but never met - yet their ideas about of the natural world would unite into a single revolutionary discovery Ìý

Features

two zebra finches

Life

Birds sing to their unborn chicks to warn them about hot weather

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Zoltan Istvan, head and shoulders, pictured in black and white with clouds in the background. He's white, square-jawed and arrogant-looking

Humans

Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

Comment

Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind

Life

Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind

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children with Downs

Health

Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down's

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First Americans must have arrived by sea, not via Alaska

Earth

First Americans must have arrived by sea, not via Alaska

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A clump of yeast cells

Life

Simple lab life makes an evolutionary leap in a few generations

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Craggy landscape in Yunnan province, China

Earth

Some of the earliest plants took root by growing up, not down

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Humans

We need a new secular approach to dignity

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Brexit

Health

Why we're funny about facts and prefer emotions

From Brexit and vaccines to climate change and GM foods, why do humans find expert advice so hard to take? Two new books have a lot of suggestions

Culture

Life

Cactus bugs compensate for lack of weapons with bigger balls

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Life

Crows are first animals spotted using tools to carry objects

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Humans

Smarter every day: Increasing intelligence changed how we see IQ

Culture

Life

Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time

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