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Monkeys and apes

Health

We're starting to understand why some people regain weight they lost

Changes to the structure of DNA within fat cells may be why it is often so hard to keep weight off after you have lost it

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PJKM6Y Weisweiler power plant in Eschweiler, RWE Power AG, brown coal power plant and wind power plants, alternative energy, fossil energy, renewable energy, smoke cloud, Eschweiler, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Environment

Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever, asks a provocative book

Culture

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Humans

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Features

Macrophotograph of a huge Eastern hornet (orientalis Vespa) against a blue sky on a Sunny summer day

Life

Hornets can hold their alcohol like no other animal on Earth

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A wild bottlenose dolphin having a health assessment

Life

Dolphins breathe in microplastics and it could be damaging their lungs

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Health

MDMA was hyped as a promising treatment for PTSD – what went wrong?

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Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

Health

Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

Comment

Why midlife is the perfect time to take control of your future health

Health

Why midlife is the perfect time to take control of your future health

Features

breastfeeding an infant

Health

A long-standing mystery about breastfeeding may have been solved

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A pygmy blue whale calf drinking its mother's milk

Life

Blue whale mother caught feeding her calf on video for first time ever

A snorkelling tourist in East Timor has filmed a pygmy blue whale calf drinking its mother’s milk for the first time

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Life

Sick chimpanzees seek out range of plants with medicinal properties

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Environment

Shipping companies are testing biofuel made from cashew nut shells

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Life

Tiny great ape fossils identified as new species from Europe

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Technology

Dutch police trial AI-powered robot dog to safely inspect drug labs

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