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Why doing more exercise won’t help you burn more calories
Forget the idea that to lose weight you just need to work off more calories than you consume. The truth is far weirder
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Winning at work: How to plan your day (and avoid the afternoon slump)
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Burden of Genius review: The story of the first liver transplants
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The animal economists that can wheel and deal as well as any human
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Emily Mitchell: Mysterious early lifeforms
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Richard Faragher: Can you live forever?
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Three Identical Strangers review: a good film about bad science
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Extinct ‘Denisovan’ people may have lived on Earth’s highest plateau
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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa
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Sick ants stay clear of their co-workers to stop disease spreading
Ants exposed to a potentially lethal fungal pathogen spend less time in the nest - a strategy that helps protect co-workers and the queen from becoming infected
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Smarty plants: They can learn, adapt and remember without brains
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To truly blossom, science requires some unorthodox thinkers
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Judith Mank: Why do we have sex?
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