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When these monkeys bang rocks together, they make stone flakes that resemble those archaeologists believe humans made two million to three million years ago.

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Nobel laureate Dan Shechtman describes the structure of quasicrystals, the discovery of which won him the scorn of colleagues in the 1980s and then the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011.

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It takes a lot to stop an unstoppable subatomic particle. Art McDonald, co-recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, describes how he detected elusive neutrinos that were born in the center of the sun and change characteristics during their journeys.

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Bill Phillips explains how laser cooling, for which he shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, led to a revolution in timekeeping.

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Physicist and Nobelist Serge Haroche describes using a mirrored box to trap photons to spy on them as they bounce around inside.

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Nature presented this illustrated science fiction story as part of its Science Fiction Special.

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Researchers can create complex patterns in air and water using ultrasonic waves.

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This rare crow can select a tool and manipulate it to pry tasty treats from crevices in under a minute.

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H. G. Wells is one of the most influential science fiction writers in history. In this Nature Video, we present five surprising facts about the man behind War of the Worlds.

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Scientists printed out 3-D models of Lucy's bones, showing a breakage pattern consistent with a fall from a tree.

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The red dwarf star Proxima Centauri is home to a newly discovered exoplanet, which may look a lot like Earth.

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Re-creating photographs from the 1930s can help scientists understand Greenland’s melting glaciers and predict how quickly climate change might make them disappear into the sea.

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Metamaterials don’t react the way you would expect. Push down on this cube from the top and a face appears on the side. The secret? A carefully designed substructure.

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A newly updated map of the human brain may be the most accurate yet, helping solve over 100 years of arguments.

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The world’s most photographed ewe was born in Scotland on July 5, 1996. Nature Video talks to two of the researchers who created her.

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New fossils shed light on the origin of the unusual human relative known as ‘the hobbit’.

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One lab is using slow motion footage of people sneezing to study the physics of these disease-spreading expulsions.

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Nature asked 1,576 scientists for their thoughts on reproducibility. Most agree that there's a 'crisis' and over 70% said they'd tried and failed to reproduce another group's experiments.

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In a cave in France archaeologists have found some of the oldest human constructions ever discovered —but no one knows what they are. Nature Video takes a look.

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For centuries, two fabled Egyptian cities lay hidden in the Nile delta – until underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio found them. A new exhibition explores their treasures.

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Scientists have created an interactive brain map showing which areas respond to different words. Nature Video explores how our brains organise the thousands of words in our heads.

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A synchrotron is a high powered x-ray generator, running 24 hours day and night to provide high-frequency light beams for scientific research. In order not to waste any time or money the researchers make full use of every second they are allotted. Nature Video spends a day and a night at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility to reveal the science that never sleeps.

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In a world filled with complex networks, can mathematical tools bring order and predictability to the chaos? Nature Video finds out.

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