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Ankle fossil suggests our ancient ancestors leapt like acrobats

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Ankle fossil suggests our ancient ancestors leapt like acrobats

A 52-million-year-old ankle bone hints at first primates jumping rather than clambering from tree to tree – but what drove them to evolve this way is a mystery

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Forensic Architecture: How to make right state wrongs

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Failed electric buses remind us that roads not taken do matter

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Tough life: Thailand's macaques hang out on island beaches, cracking open seafood with stones

Life

It took these monkeys just 13 years to learn how to crack nuts

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person inhaling a balloon in front of houses of parliament

Health

UK's bad drug law flounders, which is no real surprise at all

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The silhouettes of two people sat talking over a table

Humans

It only takes a few gene tweaks to make a human voice

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Life

Low-ranked female monkeys band together against their leaders

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Twisted carbon nanotubes harness waste energy and put it to work

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Twisted carbon nanotubes harness waste energy and put it to work

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Swimming pool vents and steps resemble eyes and mouth

Life

Monkeys can see faces in inanimate things, just like us

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Humans

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

Author Stephen Asma knows how to improvise, but The Evolution of Imagination begs the question: what can unbridled thought bring to science?

Culture

Technology

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

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Earth

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

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Earth

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

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Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

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