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Humans

Toys are us: How childhood objects may have shaped human history

Tantalising evidence hints that key human innovations including the wheel and weaving were the outcome of, quite literally, child's play

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Technology

Answers: What were these six bamboozling inventions designed to do?

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Life

How busting some moves on the dance floor is good for your brain

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Environment

Climate change is happening, but how fast? This is what we really know

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Life

Jellyfish offer a sticky solution to the problem of plastic pollution

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Humans

The disorientated ape: Why clever people can be terrible navigators

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Physics

If you think black holes are strange, white holes will blow your mind

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Life

We’ve added letters to the genetic code – and the results are amazing

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Space

We don’t need stars to navigate space – black holes work way better

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Environment

Seven steps to save the planet: How to take on climate change and win

It's the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced, but we can keep global warming to within the "safe" boundary of 1.5°C. Here's how we do it

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Humans

Unearthed! The missing Native American city on the Great Plains

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Physics

Particles crossing to our world could open portal to dark-matter realm

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Health

The truth about supplements: do they work and should you take them?

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Physics

How a ghostly, forgotten particle could be the saviour of physics

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