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Tough life: Thailand's macaques hang out on island beaches, cracking open seafood with stones

Life

It took these monkeys just 13 years to learn how to crack nuts

The long-tailed macaques of Thailand already used stone hammers to split open shellfish, and now they have worked out how to use them to crack open nuts

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person inhaling a balloon in front of houses of parliament

Health

UK's bad drug law flounders, which is no real surprise at all

Comment

The silhouettes of two people sat talking over a table

Humans

It only takes a few gene tweaks to make a human voice

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A group of macaques

Life

Low-ranked female monkeys band together against their leaders

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Twisted carbon nanotubes harness waste energy and put it to work

Technology

Twisted carbon nanotubes harness waste energy and put it to work

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Swimming pool vents and steps resemble eyes and mouth

Life

Monkeys can see faces in inanimate things, just like us

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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

Cuadrilla is pressing ahead with a project to drill for shale gas in Lancashire, but a geologist thinks plans for industrial-scale fracking may be doomed

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Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture

Life

Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends

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Life

Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar

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Health

Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth

Analysis

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