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Goodwill hunting: Random ants of kindness

Life

Goodwill hunting: Random ants of kindness

It's the season of selflessness, so meet some unlikely altruists – the ants that work tirelessly to rescue their sisters

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Why whisky makes you frisky (and gin makes you sin)

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Why whisky makes you frisky (and gin makes you sin)

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Life

Chocolab: The secret recipe for low-fat chocolate

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Improvise! Shoestring solutions to big physics

Technology

Improvise! Shoestring solutions to big physics

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Rudolph to the rescue: Reindeer geoengineering

Earth

Rudolph to the rescue: Reindeer geoengineering

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Sleeping daredevil: The first dream hacker

Life

Sleeping daredevil: The first dream hacker

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Rude awakenings: How swearing made us human

Life

Rude awakenings: How swearing made us human

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Kalahari trackers who read ice-age life in footprints

Life

Kalahari trackers who read ice-age life in footprints

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Kissing by numbers: Party like it's <i>n</i> = 1999

Physics

Kissing by numbers: Party like it's n = 1999

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New Scientist 2013 holiday quiz

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Test your friends' and family's knowledge of Neanderthal shortcomings, offbeat IT, celestial portents, lurid headlines and more with our end-of-year quiz

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Wired Wild West: Cowpokes chatted on fence-wire phones

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Earth

The great white lie: What snowflakes really look like

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Life

How to train your Komodo dragon

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Health

Fresh air and sunshine: The forgotten antibiotics

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