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Cry

Health

The crying game: How tears can work for you

Blubbing isn鈥檛 always the sign of weakness it鈥檚 made out to be. The challenge is to work out when, how and why giving in to tears can be an advantage

language

Humans

Why Only Us: The language paradox

praying mantis

Environment

Cheats and Deceits: The story of how to stay alive

Neaderthals

Humans

Our first sex with Neanderthals happened 100,000 years ago

A fossilised flower of Strychnos electri found in amber

Earth

Beautiful amber fossil flower reveals plant history of New World

A skull, through the eye socket of which you can see a person's left eye

Humans

Our Neanderthal genes linked to risk of depression and addiction

A nun prays at an altar

Humans

Belief in punitive gods linked with expansion of human societies

DNA was taken from ancient human bones, like this skull, from the Dolnte Vestonice burial site in the Czech Republic

Humans

Mystery invaders conquered Europe at the end of last ice age

Words

Humans

How humans evolved language, and who said what first

Kids

Health

Happy talk: How your language shapes your brain and personality

The language you speak not only affects your brain's structure, it influences how you see the world and who you are. And as for bilingual brains...

Humans

Our future language? English rulz OK, txtspk and mind-reading

Environment

I want to bring dying languages back from the brink

Environment

Meathooked: How eating meat became a global obsession

Environment

Baby giraffes steal milk, and adults let them do it