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Space

The Longest Goodbye review: A poignant documentary on space psychology

Astronaut Cady Coleman playing duets with her Earth-bound son is among the moving and candid moments from The Longest Goodbye, Ido Mizrahy's poignant exploration of the psychology of space travel

Culture

Paranthropus, early human relative

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Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools

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Neolithic complex dubbed ‘Stonehenge of the North’ opens to UK public

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Milk may have fuelled a growth spurt in ancient Europeans

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Cave painting of cattle

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Mysterious symbols in cave paintings may be earliest form of writing

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When did hominins start cooking? It might be earlier than we thought

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We have finally found the land of Punt, where pharaohs got their gifts

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We have finally found the land of Punt, where pharaohs got their gifts

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Visualizing inferred human ancestral lineages over time and space. Each line represents an ancestor-descendant relationship in our inferred genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. The width of a line corresponds to how many times the relationship is observed, and lines are colored on the basis of the estimated age of the ancestor.

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A family tree of humanity released in 2022 shows how we're all related

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The science of self-knowledge is important, even if it is a bit fuzzy

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M26NDA Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (south-eastern France): OCaverne du Pont-d'ArcO, replica of the Chauvet Cave, registered as a Unesco World Heritage Site. It gathers

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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered review: Hunting human origin stories

From a bone fragment of a mysterious new species to the latest on cave art, Paul Pettit's powerful new book shows how science is rewriting the past

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Health

Antibiotics encoded in Neanderthal DNA could help us fight infections

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Modern humans evolved a 'selfish' X chromosome after Africa exodus

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Early humans may have cooked fish in ovens 780,000 years ago

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Despite reaching 8 billion people, we must plan for population decline

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