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human evolution

Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

Life

Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten

The past 15 years have called into question every assumption about who we are and where we came from. Turns out our evolution is more baffling than we thought

Features

Magic mushroom chemical may be a hallucinogenic insect repellent

Life

Magic mushroom chemical may be a hallucinogenic insect repellent

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A baby looking inquisitively to its left

Health

Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

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Letters from Charles Darwin

Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture

A lake in Antarctica where the R1S1 strain of Halorubrum lacusprofundi was discovered

Life

Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from

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Meet the turtles surviving an invasion of enormous tractors

Life

Meet the turtles surviving an invasion of enormous tractors

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Goldfish go months without oxygen by making alcohol inside cells

Life

Goldfish go months without oxygen by making alcohol inside cells

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Turtle-headed sea snake

Earth

Sea snakes are turning black in response to industrial pollution

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face

Humans

The enigma of the face in forming first impressions

Culture

a partially excavated skull

Humans

Ancient skull belonged to a cousin of the ape common ancestor

A 13-million-year-old skull found in Kenya provides the best evidence yet for the African origins of the ancient species that gave rise to all living apes

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Earth

Is our environmental future better than we thought?

Culture

Life

What the first flower on Earth might have looked like

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Life

Flatworms can still ‘see’ even after they are decapitated

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Life

Tardigrade genomes help explain how they survive without water

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