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cell biology

Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind

Life

Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind

A pleasure-seeking ape can predict the taste of cocktails it has never tried before, which was thought to be something only humans can do

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Selfish dogs would rather play with a toy than help a human

Life

Selfish dogs would rather play with a toy than help a human

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A clump of yeast cells

Life

Simple lab life makes an evolutionary leap in a few generations

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Chimneys of iron hydroxide (left) and iron sulphide (right) precipitate out of solution when alkaline fluids feed into these mimics of early Earth oceans

Earth

Genesis in a jar: How chemical gardens may lead us to alien life

Features

Rwanda

Humans

Does science undermine human rights?

Features

Transgender Olympians in Rio don't have an unfair advantage

Life

Transgender Olympians in Rio don't have an unfair advantage

Comment

Parasite on a deep-sea fish

Life

Videos reveal the Russian doll parasitic world of the deep seas

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Bottom trawler scrapes the sea bed

Life

Deep-sea ecosystems still under threat despite UN protection

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Cyclists on road bikes

Health

Legal ketone sports supplement pushes athletes further, faster

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A small pink and white fish next to come coral

Life

Deepest-ever reef survey by divers discovers new fish species

Two marine biologists beat the record for the deepest underwater survey carried out by human divers, investigating a little-studied ecosystem full of new species

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Life

Universal ancestor of all life on Earth was only half alive

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Life

Eating each other’s faeces helps earwig young survive famine

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Life

Dingo cannibalism makes for a dog-eat-dog world in Australia

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Health

Thousands of fMRI brain studies in doubt due to software flaws

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