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Humans

Survival of the wittiest: Could wordplay have boosted human evolution?

Evidence for the origins of complex language can be found in creative two-word insults such as busy-body and kill-joy

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Environment

The bizarre story of a rodent utopia that predicted doom for humanity

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Physics

The wild physics that could actually be used to build a time machine

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Mind

Can you and your family solve these mind-bending scientific riddles?

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Mathematics

The surprising maths that explains why coincidences are so common

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Society

From enshittocene to virome, science and technology’s words of 2024

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Mind

How neuroscience can help you find the perfect children’s toy

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Environment

How a plan to make the world’s largest snowflake was humbled by nature

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Chemistry

The scientific secrets to baking the perfect holiday gingerbread

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A pigeon looks in the photographer's camera in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on November 17, 2016. / AFP / dpa / Frank Rumpenhorst / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read FRANK RUMPENHORST/DPA/AFP via Getty Images)

Life

Pigeons are misunderstood: These little-known facts will prove why

They were loved by Charles Darwin, they build brilliantly bad nests and they even produce a kind of 鈥渕ilk鈥�. Surely, these facts are more than enough to foster a love for the urban pigeon

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Life

The amazing talents of pigeons 鈥� and why we should learn to love them

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Mind

She’s obsessed with chicken! The tests revealing my dog’s inner life

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Humans

The ancient board games we finally know how to play 鈥� thanks to AI

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Life

The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate

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