Humans
Lucky you! Accidents of evolution that made us human
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Lucky accidents of human evolution: Jaw dropper
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Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Brain gain
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Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Energy upgrade
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Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Gift of the gab
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Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Helping hand
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Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Switch to starch
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Technology
Touch and go: Fondling the digital world
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Health
Wireless medicine: Turn on, tune in, control life
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News
Health
World’s first Parkinson’s vaccine is trialled
A handful of people have received the first ever vaccine for Parkinson's. The drug is thought to stop dopamine-producing cells in the brain dying
News
Earth
Carbon dioxide levels reach a new milestone
News
Obama ‘gave full backing to Stuxnet attack on Iran’
News
Space
Watching the transit of Venus… from Saturn
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Earth
Japan to renege on carbon emissions cuts
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60 Seconds
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Health
‘Western cancers’ spreading to developing world
News
Earth
Geoengineering would turn blue skies whiter
News
Physics
Hawking’s ‘Escher-verse’ could be theory of everything
News
Humans
Zen meditators tap in to subliminal messages
News
Health
Rehab robot helps paralysed rats walk again
News
Space
Saturn moon spouts plasma unlike any seen before
News
Health
Bionic cells can do basic arithmetic
News
Health
Watching surgeons expand a baby’s skull
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Environment
Plants may be able to ‘hear’ others
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Life
Goo-goo-gorillas have their own kind of baby talk
News
Life
Chickadees get smarter as they move up mountains
News
Life
Zoologger: Strange reptiles saw heads off seabirds
News
Health
Autism study strengthens idea that we read God’s mind
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Space
Cosmic climate change may have stunted black holes
News
Environment
Menstrual huts protect Dogon men from cuckoldry
News
Earth
Vast cosmic event leaves record in ancient trees
News
Earth
New concerns over safety of arsenic in drinking water
News
Humans
The AI game that knows you better than anyone
News
Mind
Crowd IQ is proof that the hivemind is usually best
News
Technology
Face recognition finds lost pilgrims in Mecca
News
Technology
Go for a jog with a helicopter drone
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Technology
Why we may never know who created Flame virus
News
Opinion
Health
The right amount of alcohol is not always less
Changes in alcohol consumption should not be simply about cutting it, but about optimising it
Opinion
Technology
Familiarity shouldn’t block creativity in haptics
Opinion
Life
Let’s get real on synthetic biology
Opinion
Mind
Criminalising drugs is harming medical research
Opinion
Technology
The Millennium prizewinner who gave Linux to the world
Opinion
Features
Humans
Lucky you! Accidents of evolution that made us human
Evolution is a game of chance. 91av uncovers six of the winning mutations that helped humans hit the jackpot
Features
Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Jaw dropper
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Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Brain gain
Features
Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Energy upgrade
Features
Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Gift of the gab
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Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Helping hand
Features
Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Switch to starch
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Technology
Touch and go: Fondling the digital world
Features
Health
Wireless medicine: Turn on, tune in, control life
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Culture
Evolving on many levels
See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog
Culture
Hormone hangovers spell financial doom
Culture
Puff pieces: Sculptures made of thin air
Culture
A palaeontologist’s Alaskan adventure
Culture
Accessing our digital legacy
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