Science
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Ancient humans only evolved language once, but why?
My son is a wizard. He walks into the kitchen, looks at me and utters the magic words: “Can I…
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Vera Rubin Observatory has already found thousands of new asteroids
Amid the millions of distant stars and galaxies captured in the first images released from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory…
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Mice with two fathers have their own offspring for the first time
Adult male mice that have two fathers and went on to have offspring of their own Yanchang Wei For the…
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How the science of friendships can help make yours better
Meaningful friendships might feel like something that should come naturally. We enjoy people’s company or we don’t; we find the…
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Why physicists think geometry is the path to a theory of everything
Can you imagine the imprint a four-dimensional hexagon might leave as it passes through your three-dimensional kitchen table? Probably not,…
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How symbiosis made Earth what it is – and why it’s key to our future
For the first 2 billion years of life on Earth, our planet was dominated by single-celled bacteria and their cousins,…
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The deep lessons quasiparticles teach us about the nature of reality
koto_feja/Getty Images koto_feja/Getty Images When we think of particles, we tend to think of them as real objects – tiny,…
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Orcas scrub each other clean with bits of kelp
Groups of killer whales exhibit strong social behaviour Shutterstock/Tory Kallman Orcas off the west coast of North America are grooming…
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Why is it seemingly impossible to stop phone thieves?
London is a phone-theft hotspot Jeff Blackler/Shutterstock Even if you have never had your smartphone stolen, you probably know someone…
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Stellar flares may hamper search for life in promising star system
Illustration of TRAPPIST-1, a red-dwarf star with at least seven orbiting planets Mark Garlick/Alamy The search for atmospheres around the…
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