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Rude awakenings: How swearing made us human

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Rude awakenings: How swearing made us human

Our crudest outbursts can unravel ancient links between words and thoughts. They may even hint at our ancestors' first utterances, finds Tiffany O'Callaghan

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Kalahari trackers who read ice-age life in footprints

Life

Kalahari trackers who read ice-age life in footprints

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Kissing by numbers: Party like it's <i>n</i> = 1999

Physics

Kissing by numbers: Party like it's n = 1999

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All spruced up: Breeding a better Christmas tree

Life

All spruced up: Breeding a better Christmas tree

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Goodwill hunting: Random ants of kindness

Life

Goodwill hunting: Random ants of kindness

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Why whisky makes you frisky (and gin makes you sin)

Humans

Why whisky makes you frisky (and gin makes you sin)

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Life

Chocolab: The secret recipe for low-fat chocolate

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Improvise! Shoestring solutions to big physics

Technology

Improvise! Shoestring solutions to big physics

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Rudolph to the rescue: Reindeer geoengineering

Earth

Rudolph to the rescue: Reindeer geoengineering

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Sleeping daredevil: The first dream hacker

Life

Sleeping daredevil: The first dream hacker

Modern dream research has a lot to learn from the century-old exploits of an eccentric French marquis, finds David Robson

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Health

Fresh air and sunshine: The forgotten antibiotics

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Quantum lab is dazzling vision of computer chip future

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All present: Our pick of the best science gifts

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My quantum algorithm won't break the internet… yet

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