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Monkeys and apes

Life

Bottlenose dolphins can sense electric fields with their snouts

Like platypuses and some sharks, bottlenose dolphins have an electric sense which they may use to navigate and search for food

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Health

Vagus nerve stimulation may help treat drug addiction

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Apartment air conditioners in a building in Singapore

Technology

Cooling system could replace air con and drastically cut energy use

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Life

Bonobos are friendly with those outside their group – unlike chimps

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Orca and fishing boats in the Straits of Gibraltar, Europe

Life

Orcas sink another sailboat as a bewildering wave of attacks continues

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Life

Chimpanzees use high ground to scope out rival groups

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Space

Mouse embryos have been grown in space for the first time

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Australia, Northern Territory, Hermannsburg, Solar Power Generating Station in Outback

Environment

How countries can go fossil fuel free with wind and solar superpowers

Features

Hundreds of pro-cannabis demonstrators march in New York City

Society

Legalising marijuana hasn't been the quick fix the US hoped for

Comment

Electrical energy

Technology

Tiny generator uses the motion of molecules to produce electricity

Generating electricity from the movements of molecules in a fluid could one day power devices like tiny medical implants or household appliances

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Health

Huge rise in US overdose deaths from fentanyl mixed with stimulants

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Life

Our ultra-mobile arm joints may have evolved for climbing down trees

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Health

Cells from discarded placentas may help to treat heart attacks

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Health

Binge drinking hits record high among adults 35 to 50 years old in US

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