The high intelligence levels of orangutans have long been recognised, partly due to their practical skills such as using tools to retrieve seeds and forage…
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Healthy lifestyle may offset genetics by 60% and add five years to life, study says
A healthy lifestyle may offset the impact of genetics by more than 60% and add another five years to your life, according to the first…
View More Healthy lifestyle may offset genetics by 60% and add five years to life, study saysBumblebee species able to survive underwater for up to a week
Bumblebees might be at home in town and country but now researchers have found at least one species that is even more adaptable: it can…
View More Bumblebee species able to survive underwater for up to a weekFox bones at ancient burial site suggest animal may have been kept as pet
The remains of a fox unearthed at a human burial site in Argentina dating back 1,500 years has raised the possibility the animal may have…
View More Fox bones at ancient burial site suggest animal may have been kept as petThe new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’
Patient One was 24 years old and pregnant with her third child when she was taken off life support. It was 2014. A couple of…
View More The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’
They remain one of the most elusive groups of humans to have walked on earth. Evidence from the DNA traces left by Denisovans shows they…
View More Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’Scientists name newly discovered ancient amphibian species after Kermit the Frog
After achieving worldwide fame through numerous hit films and TV shows, leading to a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, Kermit the Frog has another…
View More Scientists name newly discovered ancient amphibian species after Kermit the FrogI discovered thousands of fossils after retiring. Now I’m nearly 80 and still going strong
My interest in fossils began at the age of 10 in my back garden in Glastonbury, Somerset, where I discovered ammonites. With hindsight, it wasn’t…
View More I discovered thousands of fossils after retiring. Now I’m nearly 80 and still going strongIs the 100-year old TB vaccine a new weapon against Alzheimer’s?
Scientific discoveries can emerge from the strangest places. In early 1900s France, the doctor Albert Calmette and the veterinarian Camille Guérin aimed to discover how…
View More Is the 100-year old TB vaccine a new weapon against Alzheimer’s?Juvenile great apes love to tease and annoy their elders, study finds
Footage of great apes has revealed that humans are not the only ones to endure seemingly endless bouts of teasing dished out by their smaller…
View More Juvenile great apes love to tease and annoy their elders, study finds