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UK's first fracking since 2011 may not be as bad as feared

Earth

UK's first fracking since 2011 may not be as bad as feared

This is bad news for climate, but environmentalists' fears that it will usher in a new area of fracking in the UK may be premature  

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Two snub-nosed monkeys in a tree, one slumped against a branch

Life

Monkey seen caring for dying mate then grieving after she dies

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A still from the Jungle Book showing Mowgli standing with King Louie in a temple (which the ape fills) with smaller monkeys looking on

Life

Jungle tales: the real King Louie was the biggest ape of all

Features

A grey and white porpoise lying on a pebbly beach

Life

UK's harbour porpoise strandings linked to rising starvation

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Life

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

Features

City rooftops showing solar panels

Earth

Why cheap green energy could derail the renewable revolution

Analysis

Hatched blastocyst embryo

Health

Embryo protein may warn before miscarriage and pre-eclampsia

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Humans

What is Paleolithic Art?: How to decode the shadows on the wall

Culture

human and dog skeletons

Life

Lovely bones: Fascinating skeletons of the past and present

Culture

Beluga whale

Life

Drowning in sound? The sad case of the baby beluga whales

The white whales of the Arctic are among the most vocal of all marine mammals – newborns even babble like human babies. Could this be their undoing?

Features

Technology

If Google has nothing to hide about NHS data, why so secretive?

Leader

Life

Plants may form memories using mad cow disease proteins

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Health

Sleeping away from home? Half your brain is still awake

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Humans

Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

CultureLab

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