Life
Life’s secret ingredient: A radical theory of what makes things alive
How does inanimate matter come to breathe, thrive and reproduce? Explaining this magic means overhauling nature’s laws, says physicist Paul Davies
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Life
Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is
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Health
Why doing more exercise won’t help you burn more calories
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Mind
Winning at work: How to plan your day (and avoid the afternoon slump)
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Health
Burden of Genius review: The story of the first liver transplants
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Life
The animal economists that can wheel and deal as well as any human
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Life
Emily Mitchell: Mysterious early lifeforms
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Health
Richard Faragher: Can you live forever?
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Three Identical Strangers review: a good film about bad science
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Environment
Extinct ‘Denisovan’ people may have lived on Earth’s highest plateau
The Tibetan Plateau is a tough environment so we thought humans arrived only about 12,000 years ago, but it seems someone was there 40,000 to 30,000 years ago
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Humans
Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa
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Life
Sick ants stay clear of their co-workers to stop disease spreading
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Life
Smarty plants: They can learn, adapt and remember without brains
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Life
To truly blossom, science requires some unorthodox thinkers
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