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Vegetarian orang-utans eat world's cutest animal

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Vegetarian orang-utans eat world's cutest animal

When fruit gets scarce for Sumatran orang-utans, some adopt an unusual coping strategy: they hunt slow lorises

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Rescue struggles towards Alaska's frozen-in village

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Rescue struggles towards Alaska's frozen-in village

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How many languages can one person speak?

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Algorithm engines of the networked world

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Looking inside medics' minds

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Trying to make the cosmos out of nothing

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Fracking risk is exaggerated

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Fracking risk is exaggerated

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Sex, brains and a frustrated reader

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Buildings and clothes could melt to save energy

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Buildings and clothes could melt to save energy

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Chimps learn about nature's medicine chest from elders

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Chimps learn about nature's medicine chest from elders

Senior chimpanzees appear to show the young 'uns how to recognise plants with medicinal properties – but the finding is controversial

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Cooperation, the secret weapon of our species

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Ten books for 2012

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Short fiction: Experimentation

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A spot of culture

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