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Your body's hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew

Your body's hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew

9 October 2019

We can sniff out fear, find solace in the smell of a loved one, breathe in the scent of happiness. How we're deciphering the subliminal signals of human scent
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The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry

1 May 2019

Two million years ago, our ancestors started singing to ward off predators putting humanity on a path that led to the evolution of language

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