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Health

What to know about creatine, the gym supplement with wide benefits

Creatine is commonly associated with athletes and bodybuilders, but the popular supplement seems to have broad benefits on everything from ageing to brain function

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Chimpanzees seem to get more technologically advanced through culture

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Chimpanzees seem to get more technologically advanced through culture

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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

Life

Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing

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Sunset / sunrise of Silhouette Shanghai skyline of Historical architecture and modern skyscraper on the bund of Shanghai city with Smog lies in misty fog, China

Environment

Extreme heat is now making cities unlivable. How can we survive it?

Features

Common dolphins could be impacted by military sonar

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How military sonar impacts dolphin social dynamics

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Health

We're starting to understand why some people regain weight they lost

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Environment

Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever, asks a provocative book

Culture

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Humans

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Features

Film still from Orca - Black and White Gold.

Life

Tense docu-thriller exposes the cruelties of commercial whale trade

Culture

Macrophotograph of a huge Eastern hornet (orientalis Vespa) against a blue sky on a Sunny summer day

Life

Hornets can hold their alcohol like no other animal on Earth

The oriental hornet shows no ill effects – or behavioural changes – when it spends a week drinking an 80 per cent alcohol solution

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Life

Dolphins breathe in microplastics and it could be damaging their lungs

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Health

MDMA was hyped as a promising treatment for PTSD – what went wrong?

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Technology

‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench

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Health

Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

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