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Humans

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

Our capacity for complex speech might come from tiny tweaks to existing monkey genes that gave us flatter faces and more refined larynxes

News

A group of macaques

Life

Low-ranked female monkeys band together against their leaders

News

Twisted carbon nanotubes harness waste energy and put it to work

Technology

Twisted carbon nanotubes harness waste energy and put it to work

News

Swimming pool vents and steps resemble eyes and mouth

Life

Monkeys can see faces in inanimate things, just like us

News

Doing meth raises the risk of strokes in young people

Health

Doing meth raises the risk of strokes in young people

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

A. N. Wilson's error-strewn and tendentious portrayal of Charles Darwin as a "Victorian mythmaker" falls into old traps and digs new ones, finds John van Wyhe

Culture

Health

Psychedelic medicine: the potential, the people, the politics

Features

Life

Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends

News

Health

Genetic test helps people avoid statins that may cause them pain

News

Life

Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar

News