Life
First evidence that wild mammals benefit from bigger brains
A study of red deer on a Scottish island reveals some of the first evidence in wild mammals of a clear link between brain size and evolutionary fitness
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Monkeys should be able to talk just like us – so why don’t they?
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Environment
Fish rapidly adapt to pollution thousands of times lethal levels
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Life
Brain cell transplant helps fearful mice overcome anxiety
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Environment
Longer ‘penis’ drives evolution of bigger brains in female fish
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Super-you: Your body is a nation of trillions
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Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for ‘Oscars’ of science
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Bees of the sea: Tiny crustaceans pollinate underwater plants
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Earth
World’s highest plants discovered growing 6km above sea level
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Humans
Zap to the brain alters libido in unique sex study
Analysing how people’s brainwaves changed when expecting an erotic buzz to their genitals indicates that brain stimulation can boost sex drive
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Health
UK’s first three-parent babies likely to be conceived in 2017
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Health
Making cells ignore mutations could treat genetic diseases
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Technology
Bacteria taught to bond carbon and silicon for the first time
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Africa’s tallest tree measuring 81m found on Mount Kilimanjaro
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