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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age

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Neuroscientist finds her brain shrinks while taking birth control

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Macrophotograph of a huge Eastern hornet (orientalis Vespa) against a blue sky on a Sunny summer day

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Hornets can hold their alcohol like no other animal on Earth

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A wild bottlenose dolphin having a health assessment

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Dolphins breathe in microplastics and it could be damaging their lungs

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MDMA was hyped as a promising treatment for PTSD – what went wrong?

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Rapamycin could make an epilepsy drug much safer during pregnancy

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We need to start telling women how pregnancy changes their brain

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We need to start telling women how pregnancy changes their brain

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Evidence grows for dramatic brain remodelling during pregnancy

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Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

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Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

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Why midlife is the perfect time to take control of your future health

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Why midlife is the perfect time to take control of your future health

The lifestyle choices you make in middle age play a particularly important role in how your brain ages

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A long-standing mystery about breastfeeding may have been solved

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Blue whale mother caught feeding her calf on video for first time ever

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Sick chimpanzees seek out range of plants with medicinal properties

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Environment

Shipping companies are testing biofuel made from cashew nut shells

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