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Humans

An enormous shape-shifting artwork – run by yeast

Artist Philippe Parreno has ceded control of a huge multimedia installation to a microbe colony. Has he made an alien mind or a thinking machine?

Culture

Capuchin monkey hits stone with stone

Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

News

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Humans

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Culture

Randy Hillard, pictured on a street in San Francisco

Health

The price of my life: $1.6 million and counting

Features

price tag

Health

What are you worth? How we calculate the value of a life

Features

Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize

Life

Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize

Regulars

A person injecting themselves with the anti-inflammatory drug Humira

Health

Anti-inflammatory drugs can relieve symptoms of depression

News

A woman with large rolls of fat

Health

Overweight mothers give birth to biologically older babies

News

Two whales swimming along, one of them has left a plume of faeces behind it

Life

Whales’ dung is the real reason we need to stop hunting them

News

Women protesting for abortion rights in Poland

Health

Home abortions are safe – we should let women do it themselves

The abortion pill is so safe and easy to use we should let women take it at home, says Clare Wilson

Analysis

Health

Kratom ban rethink is a hint of sanity in failed US war on drugs

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Life

I saw humpback whales save a seal from death by killer whale

Features

Life

What do our natural laws really say about the world?

Culture

Technology

Exploding Samsung phone shows how risky lithium batteries can be

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