Primate archaeology: Digging up secrets of the monkey Stone Age
31 January 2018
The discovery that chimps and some monkeys have a long history of making tools is forcing us to rethink our own cultural evolution
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The love drug that could draw people away from any addiction
31 January 2018
The "cuddle chemical" oxytocin boosts social bonds. Soon a version of it will be tested in pill form to see if it can reset the brain wiring that gets us hooked
The unpalatable truth about your favourite foods
31 January 2018
Marion Nestle has been fighting food industry giants for decades. Now she wants to expose the way they skew scientific research for their own gain
7 things we thought were made by aliens, but weren't... probably
31 January 2018
Unexplained phenomena from Martian canals to genomic patterns have been ascribed to alien intelligence – but mainly that's turned out to be wishful thinking
Interstellar: The bizarre visitor from a far-off solar system
31 January 2018
First seen in October 2017, the space rock 'Oumuamua looks like a skyscraper tumbling through space – and challenges our ideas of how planetary systems form
