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Technology

How challenging the meaning of 'fuel' lets the real world in

We know what the word "fuel" means – right? Not really, argues Karen Pinkus in her new book – outside the lab or policy office, nothing is simple

Culture

Maps and the 20th century: Where to draw the lines?

Humans

Maps and the 20th century: Where to draw the lines?

Culture

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Health

Inside the wild west world of experimental fertility clinics

Insight

PrEP

Health

More at-risk people will get access to HIV preventive treatment

News

Are caesareans really making us evolve to have bigger babies?

Humans

Are caesareans really making us evolve to have bigger babies?

News

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Life

Whales talk to each other by slapping out messages on water

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Physics

Physics may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality

Culture

Buckland with big fish

Life

Earwigs and rotten panther: The diet of a Victorian eccentric

Culture

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Life

Rare river dolphins get trapped in fishing nets as waters drop

News

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Humans

Language trends run in mysterious 14-year cycles

An analysis of nouns used over 300 years of writing shows their popularity regularly rising and falling, which may hint at a pattern to how language evolves

News

Life

Being popular is good for health - in monkeys, at least

News

Earth

Finland set to become first country to ban coal use for energy

News

Life

Porpoises plan their dives and can set their heart rate to match

News

Technology

Projected sprite makes Shakespeare’s The Tempest a messy triumph

Culture