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Chimpanzees seem to get more technologically advanced through culture

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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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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

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

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Common dolphins could be impacted by military sonar

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How military sonar impacts dolphin social dynamics

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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

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Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever, asks a provocative book

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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

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Macrophotograph of a huge Eastern hornet (orientalis Vespa) against a blue sky on a Sunny summer day

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Hornets can hold their alcohol like no other animal on Earth

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A wild bottlenose dolphin having a health assessment

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Dolphins breathe in microplastics and it could be damaging their lungs

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

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Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

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Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

Narratives around addiction often reduce it to a series of poor choices, lack of values and weakness. This has real-world consequences, warns Anna Wolfe

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Why midlife is the perfect time to take control of your future health

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A long-standing mystery about breastfeeding may have been solved

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Blue whale mother caught feeding her calf on video for first time ever

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Sick chimpanzees seek out range of plants with medicinal properties

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