Humans
Biggest ever family tree shows when cousins stopped having sex
A family tree of 13 million people has been built using data from an ancestry website, and it reveals when and why people started avoiding marrying close relations
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Shock collars are a bad way to train dogs so let’s ban them
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4 ways your eco-friendly plot is no good – and how to fix it
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Unicorns and designer babies: How CRISPR creator sees the future
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Growing skills: A scientific guide to greener fingers
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Growing skills: Top tips for producing the best veg in town
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Growing skills: How to get the prettiest flowers on the block
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Humans
Surprise! Having a big brain really does mean having less muscle
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Don’t hate all processed foods – they make modern life possible
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Advertising campaign for monkeys uses sex to sell brands
Everyone knows that in advertising sex sells, and it turns out that sex-themed adverts even work on rhesus macaques
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Beetles hide by looking like the bite marks they make on leaves
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Earth
North Atlantic right whales didn’t have a single calf this year
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Earth
Newly-discovered fungi turn luckless ants into kamikaze zombies
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Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses
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