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Ankle fossil suggests our ancient ancestors leapt like acrobats

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Ankle fossil suggests our ancient ancestors leapt like acrobats

A 52-million-year-old ankle bone hints at first primates jumping rather than clambering from tree to tree – but what drove them to evolve this way is a mystery

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Failed electric buses remind us that roads not taken do matter

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Forensic Architecture: How to make right state wrongs

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

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

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

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Pioneering gene therapy approved for leukaemia in the US

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Pioneering gene therapy approved for leukaemia in the US

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Will psychedelics for depression be just another false dawn?

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Lethal injection contained a chemical never tried before

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Australia plans random drug tests for people receiving welfare

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Australia plans random drug tests for people receiving welfare

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

Our capacity for complex speech might come from tiny tweaks to existing monkey genes that gave us flatter faces and more refined larynxes

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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

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Monkeys can see faces in inanimate things, just like us

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Doing meth raises the risk of strokes in young people

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