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Health

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

Drugs like Prozac and bumetanide show early promise for boosting intelligence in mouse studies, but activists say we should value people for who they are

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First Americans must have arrived by sea, not via Alaska

Earth

First Americans must have arrived by sea, not via Alaska

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A clump of yeast cells

Life

Simple lab life makes an evolutionary leap in a few generations

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Craggy landscape in Yunnan province, China

Earth

Some of the earliest plants took root by growing up, not down

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Humans

We need a new secular approach to dignity

Leader

Brexit

Health

Why we're funny about facts and prefer emotions

Culture

Cactus bugs compensate for lack of weapons with bigger balls

Life

Cactus bugs compensate for lack of weapons with bigger balls

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A crow stands on a branch holding a twig in its beak

Life

Crows are first animals spotted using tools to carry objects

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Woman showing toddlers a children's book

Humans

Smarter every day: Increasing intelligence changed how we see IQ

Culture

Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time

Life

Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time

‘Rocky’ the ginger ape has astonished experts by producing sounds similar to words, a feat that might help us study the evolutionary origins of human speech

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Life

You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that make you human

Features

Humans

Neanderthal skulls and brains may have developed just like ours

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Life

Mystery ancient human ancestor found in Australasian family tree

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Life

Universal ancestor of all life on Earth was only half alive

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