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Inside knowledge: What's really going on in the minds of animals

Bright animals from chimps to crows know what they know and what others are thinking. But when it comes to abstract knowledge, the picture is more mixed

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Neanderthals sat round a campfire with bits of meat hanging up in the foreground

Humans

Neanderthals may have medicated with penicillin and painkillers

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action during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Group C match between England and Algeria

Health

Try these simple mental tests to see if you're a good athlete

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Humans

Super-you: Train your brain to beat the inbuilt fear factory

Features

Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

Humans

Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

Features

Death: A special report on the inevitable

Humans

Death: A special report on the inevitable

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Bryan Johnson presenting some of his ideas

Health

$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

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Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

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Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

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Health

Primate labs give us an edge, says China's brain project chief

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Zoltan Istvan, head and shoulders, pictured in black and white with clouds in the background. He's white, square-jawed and arrogant-looking

Humans

Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

Forget Trump and Clinton, I'm campaigning for the US to embrace technology with the potential to make us immortal, says White House contender Zoltan Istvan

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Health

Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down's

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Humans

Smarter every day: Increasing intelligence changed how we see IQ

Culture

Humans

Behind the scenes at London's urban archaeology warehouse

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Humans

First Americans hunted big game in Florida 14,500 years ago

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