The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are shared with our closest relatives

The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are shared with our closest relatives

Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using mammoth tusks, a softer material than bone

Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using mammoth tusks, a softer material than bone

The artificial sweetener sucralose increases brain activity in regions involved in appetite, suggesting it makes people hungrier

The artificial sweetener sucralose increases brain activity in regions involved in appetite, suggesting it makes people hungrier

Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – and used to power – a moon base of the future

Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – and used to power – a moon base of the future

People seem to be less impressed when others lose weight with the drug Ozempic than when they achieve it via lifestyle changes

People seem to be less impressed when others lose weight with the drug Ozempic than when they achieve it via lifestyle changes

As China’s vast electrical grid relies more on wind, solar and hydropower, it faces a growing risk of power shortages due to bad weather – and that could encourage the use of coal plants

As China’s vast electrical grid relies more on wind, solar and hydropower, it faces a growing risk of power shortages due to bad weather – and that could encourage the use of coal plants

I'm a kind of physical attraction
But not one of visual satisfaction

When l am that of a situation
I'd best be given ample consideration

Around the world, as you track your course
You will encounter my ubiquitous force

What am I?


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Short Changes

Add one letter to each word below - anywhere in the word - so that each numbered pair becomes two words of opposite meaning. For example, adding P and L to PLUM and SENDER would result in PLUMP and SLENDER.

1. BUGLER EXERT
2. KID MAN
3. STALE SHAY
4. RAID SOW
5. FLAT SIN


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Nostalgia for video games seems to be strongest for those played during childhood – at least for Nintendo Switch players

Nostalgia for video games seems to be strongest for those played during childhood – at least for Nintendo Switch players

High-speed drones will be put to the test in the extreme Arctic environment as part of a project to assess how quickly glaciers in Greenland are retreating

High-speed drones will be put to the test in the extreme Arctic environment as part of a project to assess how quickly glaciers in Greenland are retreating

Feedback is baffled – baffled! – as to why Facebook owner Meta's attempts to suppress a previous employee's memoir sent the book rocketing to the top of the book charts

A cost-cutting initiative in the world of passenger aviation could see flight-deck staff reduced to just a captain, with their co-pilot replaced by AI. It may save money, but it's a risk too far, argues Paul Marks