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whales and dolphins

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

Earth

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

Can the planet change over to 100 per cent clean and renewable energy fast enough to avoid extreme climate impacts? Yes it can, says Mark Jacobson

Comment

drilling site in Lancashire

Earth

The push for UK fracking may be 55 million years too late

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Letters from Charles Darwin

Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture

One chimp embracing another

Life

Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends

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A macaque

Life

Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar

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baby being born healthy

Health

Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth

Analysis

Al Gore

Earth

Al Gore: The return of climate science’s preacher man

Culture

a group of rhesus monkeys

Life

Primate brains react differently to faces of friends and VIPs

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face

Humans

The enigma of the face in forming first impressions

Culture

face artwork

Health

Chemical controllers: How hormones influence your body and mind

Does testosterone make men bald? Is there a love hormone? Do pregnancy hormones turn your brain to mush? 51¶¯Âþ sifts the facts from the fiction

Features

Technology

Nano aluminium offers fuel cells on demand – just add water

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Life

Wild tales of stuffy sharks, intimate otters and unloved horses

Culture

Earth

Is our environmental future better than we thought?

Culture

Technology

The renewables reality: clean energy hasn't risen for 25 years

Insight

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