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How language evolved: A new idea suggests it’s all just a game

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How language evolved: A new idea suggests it’s all just a game

Our mastery of language presents many mysteries, not least where grammar comes from and how children learn to speak so effortlessly. Now researchers argue that it all makes sense if you think of language as a game of charades

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European rabbits (Oryctolagus ciniculus) juveniles emerging from burrow, Cheshire, UK May

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Rabbits face a fresh onslaught akin to myxomatosis – can they survive?

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Artificial touch: The new tech making virtual reality more immersive

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Artificial touch: The new tech making virtual reality more immersive

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How a new kind of gravitational wave will reveal the early universe

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How a new kind of gravitational wave will reveal the early universe

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Martin Rees interview: Elon Musk could spawn the first post-humans

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Martin Rees interview: Elon Musk could spawn the first post-humans

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E7KTB1 US, New York City. View from the Empire State Building observation deck. Pigeon taking a rest.

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Creatures living in our cities are evolving in some surprising ways

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Middle-age spread isn't down to metabolism, but we know how to beat it

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Middle-age spread isn't down to metabolism, but we know how to beat it

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Rory Mc Donnell interview: The slug hunter with a strange new weapon

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Rory Mc Donnell interview: The slug hunter with a strange new weapon

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Lose yourself: How transcendent experiences can boost your well-being

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Lose yourself: How transcendent experiences can boost your well-being

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Automated chemistry: The machines that can discover new drugs

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Automated chemistry: The machines that can discover new drugs

Making new molecules to treat disease has relied upon the painstaking art of synthetic chemistry, but now we're developing robots that could do it all for us

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Endlessly recyclable materials could fix our plastic waste crisis

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How to make sustainable batteries that won't wreck the planet

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New ways to suck up methane can buy us vital time in the climate fight

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How artificial intelligence can help us figure out how life began

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