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A comedian stands up for sums

Physics

A comedian stands up for sums

Think World of Warcraft with a pencil: mathematics is more fun than most reckon, says the comedian who wrote Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

CultureLab

EU emissions target isn't as ambitious as it seems

Earth

EU emissions target isn't as ambitious as it seems

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Drop into the <i>Interstellar</i> wormhole with Oculus Rift

Technology

Drop into the Interstellar wormhole with Oculus Rift

CultureLab

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Environment

Shy lemurs communicate using toilet trees

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Nonchalant night-time chimp crime caught on camera

Life

Nonchalant night-time chimp crime caught on camera

Regulars

Breaking point: Storming the barriers of unreason

Breaking point: Storming the barriers of unreason

CultureLab

What one Amazonian tribe teaches us

Life

What one Amazonian tribe teaches us

CultureLab

Zoologger: Shy lemurs communicate using toilet trees

Life

Zoologger: Shy lemurs communicate using toilet trees

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Could this bee love? Rekindling our affection for bees

Life

Could this bee love? Rekindling our affection for bees

CultureLab

Why language is neither an instinct nor innate

Life

Why language is neither an instinct nor innate

The ideas of Noam Chomsky, popularised by Steven Pinker, come under fire in Vyvyan Evans's book The Language Myth: Why language is not an instinct

CultureLab

Earth

What would a world without fossil fuels look like?

Features

Earth

Lighting cities with cheap, glaring LEDs is a dim move

Comment

Life

A life spent chasing down how whales evolved

CultureLab

Health

Exercise may be the best anti-ageing pill

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