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Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

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Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

Intelligence agencies have found that crowds of everyday people can forecast events with surprising accuracy. Now we’re running our own experiment

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Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses

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Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses

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Reconstruction of Cheddar Man's head and shoulders

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Ancient 'dark-skinned' Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true

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Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future

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The tamed ape: were humans the first animal to be domesticated?

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A man drinking out of a bottle of alcohol

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We're evolving a gene that may stop us from drinking alcohol

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Flu is evolving in new and unpredictable ways in China’s poultry

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Mute male crickets are still trying to serenade females

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Mute male crickets are still trying to serenade females

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We thought gorillas only walked on their knuckles. We were wrong

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We thought gorillas only walked on their knuckles. We were wrong

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An X chromosome from someone with fragile X syndrome

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CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disability

CRISPR gene editing has been used to alleviate the genetic disorder fragile X syndrome, but the technique has only been tried in cells in a dish so far

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Our cities are driving evolution and it's not all bad news

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Early Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark skin and blue eyes

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Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

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Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

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