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cell biology

Capuchin monkey hits stone with stone

Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

Capuchins make stone flakes that could be mistaken for hominin tools, but they do so by accident in search of mineral dust they lick, perhaps as a medication

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Picure of Women on Web

Health

'I had a mail-order abortion': The women forced to go it alone

Comment

Two whales swimming along, one of them has left a plume of faeces behind it

Life

Whales’ dung is the real reason we need to stop hunting them

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Worms seen farming plants to be eaten later for the first time

Life

Worms seen farming plants to be eaten later for the first time

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Spiders can hear you walking and talking from across the room

Life

Spiders can hear you walking and talking from across the room

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Camouflaged frogfish

Earth

Frogfish turns itself white to blend in with bleached corals

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deformed dolphin with whale

Life

Animal heroes that save other species: Five amazing stories

Features

A zebra

Life

What do our natural laws really say about the world?

Culture

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Life

Snake fools attackers by changing its eyes to look like a viper

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A man sipping a glass of water

Health

How much water should you drink a day? Your throat will tell you

When you’ve had enough to drink, it becomes harder to swallow water – a finding that suggests you shouldn’t force yourself to drink eight glasses a day

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Life

Chimps, bonobos and orangutans grasp how others view the world

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Life

Flower hijacks the fragrance of attacked bees to imprison flies

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Life

Required: A moral vision for gene editing

Culture

Life

Weird orange crocodiles found gorging on bats in Gabon’s caves

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