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diet and exercise

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Technology

Ingredient-swapping web browser is a recipe for disaster

Not a lover of lobster? Scared of scampi? The internet is still your oyster with this recipe helper, but be prepared for a side dish of surprising swaps

Regulars

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Humans

A tale of how imagination came to be loses sight of the evidence

Culture

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Technology

A play called Against doesn’t know what it’s for

Culture

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

Earth

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

Comment

drilling site in Lancashire

Earth

The push for UK fracking may be 55 million years too late

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Letters from Charles Darwin

Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture

Low-calorie pizza and burgers won’t fix our child obesity crisis

Health

Low-calorie pizza and burgers won’t fix our child obesity crisis

Comment

One chimp embracing another

Life

Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends

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A macaque

Life

Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar

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Health

Netflix vegan hit What the Health serves up lots of bad science

Campaigning vegans will change nothing if they embrace bad science and conspiracy theories when making the health case for their diet, says Anthony Warner

Comment

Health

Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth

Analysis

Earth

Al Gore: The return of climate science’s preacher man

Culture

Life

Primate brains react differently to faces of friends and VIPs

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Humans

The enigma of the face in forming first impressions

Culture

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