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How ancient needs still drive our weird ways

Life

How ancient needs still drive our weird ways

In Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare, evolutionary psychology pioneer Gordon H. Orians traces the roots of today's human quirks in the minds of our ancestors

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What climate change has done to Walden's woods

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What climate change has done to Walden's woods

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London mayor Boris talks brain scans and robot cars

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London mayor Boris talks brain scans and robot cars

Opinion

Superhuman cyborg drummer plays his first live gig

Technology

Superhuman cyborg drummer plays his first live gig

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Pro violinists fail to spot Stradivarius in blind test

Technology

Pro violinists fail to spot Stradivarius in blind test

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Global plan to shush ships for the sake of whales

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Global plan to shush ships for the sake of whales

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Almost half of new electricity is now clean and green

Earth

Almost half of new electricity is now clean and green

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Redesigned crops could produce far more fuel

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Redesigned crops could produce far more fuel

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Coal fuelled China long before industrial revolution

Technology

Coal fuelled China long before industrial revolution

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Why do we love to organise knowledge into trees?

Mind

Why do we love to organise knowledge into trees?

From studying the bible to visualising computer storage, Manuel Lima's sumptuous The Book of Trees explores the tree diagram's appeal for showing information

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Life

Bite-sized chunks of brain science don't quite satisfy

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Life

Time for Japan to get real over whale research

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Life

Joined-up research will star in Wellcome's new project

Careers

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Whale's bacterial stowaways reveal how stressed it is

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