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Ants use tools to collect honey

Life

Ants craft tiny sponges to dip into honey and carry it home

Non-expandable stomachs mean these ants need to use absorbent tools to transport tasty liquids to their nests – and they figure out the best objects for the job

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Glow-worm cave

Life

Cave glow-worms vomit long sticky urine threads to catch prey

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Footprints clearly imprinted in ancient rock

Humans

Oldest early human footprints suggest males had several ‘wives’

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Red deer on Rum in Scotland

Life

First evidence that wild mammals benefit from bigger brains

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Guilty or not guilty: Does inequality really lead to murder?

Humans

Guilty or not guilty: Does inequality really lead to murder?

Culture

Fish rapidly adapt to pollution thousands of times lethal levels

Life

Fish rapidly adapt to pollution thousands of times lethal levels

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Mosquito fish

Life

Longer ‘penis’ drives evolution of bigger brains in female fish

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Humans

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

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Skullcap containing bits of bone

Humans

Skull casket holding human bones reveals weird burial rituals

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Are caesareans really making us evolve to have bigger babies?

Humans

Are caesareans really making us evolve to have bigger babies?

C-sections mean that babies whose heads are too big or whose mothers’ pelvises are too narrow, are able to survive – a fact that might be changing our species

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Life

Why baby flatfish grow into the wonkiest animals in the world

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Life

Weeping rock mystery down to microbe builders and barnacle chefs

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Humans

Early hominin Lucy had powerful arms from years of tree-climbing

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Technology

Bacteria taught to bond carbon and silicon for the first time

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