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Reconstruction of Cheddar Man's head and shoulders

Humans

Ancient ‘dark-skinned’ Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true

The headline was that an ancient Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark skin, but the genetics of skin colour are so complex that we can’t be sure

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Technology

DeepMind AI is learning to understand the ‘thoughts’ of others

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Earth

Arctic hit by record high temperatures as rest of Europe shivers

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Earth

North Atlantic right whales didn’t have a single calf this year

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Technology

Facebook Messenger used to try and deradicalise extremists

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Space

Start-up aims to catapult stuff to space without using rockets

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Space

You could survive falling into a black hole but it may get weird

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Earth

Newly-discovered fungi turn luckless ants into kamikaze zombies

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Technology

Baidu can clone your voice after hearing just a minute of audio

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Physics

Weird particle soup may have formed stars in the early universe

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Physics

Quantum trick lets one particle send messages two ways at once

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Health

Eating fish as a child seems to protect you from hay fever

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Humans

We may be overdue a massive war, says a statistical analysis

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Technology

There’s an alt-right alt-Twitter and it’s filled with hate

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Humans

Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world

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Health

Having children may add 11 years to a woman’s biological age

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Beetles hide by looking like the bite marks they make on leaves

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Health

Miniature personalised tumours could help you get the best chemo

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Health

Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses

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Environment

Bunnies draped in fake polar bear fur are both cosy and stealthy

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Technology

Robots armed with saws make custom flat-pack furniture

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Health

Cycling in later life makes you less likely to have a bad fall

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Environment

Sea urchins can drill holes in solid rock with just their teeth

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Physics

We can now squeeze a molecule and turn it into one that we want

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