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whales and dolphins

Chimpanzees seem to get more technologically advanced through culture

Life

Chimpanzees seem to get more technologically advanced through culture

Groups of wild chimpanzees with more complex tool-using behaviours tend to be genetically linked, providing evidence for cumulative culture in other apes

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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

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Sunset / sunrise of Silhouette Shanghai skyline of Historical architecture and modern skyscraper on the bund of Shanghai city with Smog lies in misty fog, China

Environment

Extreme heat is now making cities unlivable. How can we survive it?

Features

Common dolphins could be impacted by military sonar

Video

How military sonar impacts dolphin social dynamics

Video

Health

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

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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

Film still from Orca - Black and White Gold.

Life

Tense docu-thriller exposes the cruelties of commercial whale trade

Culture

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

Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico have tiny bits of plastic in their breath, and this is probably a worldwide problem

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Health

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

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Technology

‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench

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Health

Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

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Life

If we could talk to whales, what might they say?

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