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pregnancy and birth

art installation

Humans

An enormous shape-shifting artwork – run by yeast

Artist Philippe Parreno has ceded control of a huge multimedia installation to a microbe colony. Has he made an alien mind or a thinking machine?

Culture

Capuchin monkey hits stone with stone

Life

Some of our Stone Age tools may just be crafty monkey throwaways

News

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Humans

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Culture

Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize

Life

Dizzying view of orangutan hunting for figs wins photo prize

Regulars

A woman with large rolls of fat

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Overweight mothers give birth to biologically older babies

News

Two whales swimming along, one of them has left a plume of faeces behind it

Life

Whales’ dung is the real reason we need to stop hunting them

News

Women protesting for abortion rights in Poland

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Home abortions are safe – we should let women do it themselves

Analysis

Robert Pitman

Life

I saw humpback whales save a seal from death by killer whale

Features

A zebra

Life

What do our natural laws really say about the world?

Culture

A woman looking at her phone

Technology

Exploding Samsung phone shows how risky lithium batteries can be

Lithium-ion batteries have transformed consumer electronics, but they are and will remain a volatile partner in tech's revolution, says Paul Marks

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Earth

US presidential candidates being let off hook on climate change

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Humans

The Electric Kool-Aid language test

Culture

Earth

There’s no good reason to go ahead with fracking in the UK

Analysis

Technology

Entering the random world of semi-sentient art

Culture

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