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Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart

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Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart

Two “thinking” regions of human brains are much richer in a neurotransmitter called dopamine than the equivalent brain regions in apes and monkeys

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How a tiny fly can ‘scuba dive’ in a salty and toxic lake

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How a tiny fly can ‘scuba dive’ in a salty and toxic lake

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Scorpion

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Venom: The show with an unsettling sting in its tale

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Dali skull

Humans

Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

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Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

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Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

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Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

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Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day

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Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day

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There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed

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There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticed

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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

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Freeloading mites are squatting on spider webs and stealing food

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RNA

Humans

The very first living thing is still alive inside each one of us

A cellular machine so powerful that it gave rise to all of life and created our marble planet can tell us how it all began

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The first ancestors of giant pandas probably lived in Europe

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Humans

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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Life

Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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Life

Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

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