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Swimming pool vents and steps resemble eyes and mouth

Life

Monkeys can see faces in inanimate things, just like us

From Jesus appearing on toast to the man in the moon, we can’t help seeing faces where there are none. Now it turns out monkeys do the same thing

News

Humans

A tale of how imagination came to be loses sight of the evidence

Culture

Two actors on a stage

Technology

A play called Against doesn’t know what it’s for

Culture

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

Earth

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

Comment

drilling site in Lancashire

Earth

The push for UK fracking may be 55 million years too late

News

Letters from Charles Darwin

Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture

One chimp embracing another

Life

Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends

News

A macaque

Life

Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar

News

black balloon

Gas-filled black balloons create eerie floating worlds

Regulars

eclipse

Space

America's total eclipse: The best guides to how to prepare

We have always hunted meaning in total eclipses. As the US prepares for a total eclipse, four new books tell us all about them and remind us to enjoy them too

Culture

Technology

AI artist conjures up convincing fake worlds from memories

News

Health

Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth

Analysis

Earth

Al Gore: The return of climate science’s preacher man

Culture

Life

Primate brains react differently to faces of friends and VIPs

News