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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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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

News

Meet the turtles surviving an invasion of enormous tractors

Life

Meet the turtles surviving an invasion of enormous tractors

News

Goldfish go months without oxygen by making alcohol inside cells

Life

Goldfish go months without oxygen by making alcohol inside cells

News

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

News

farm gate

Earth

Is our environmental future better than we thought?

Two possible visions of our future are competing for our attention: an Anthropocene desert of homogenised mongrels and a virtual supercontinent teeming with new species

Culture

Life

What the first flower on Earth might have looked like

News

Life

Flatworms can still ‘see’ even after they are decapitated

News

Life

Tardigrade genomes help explain how they survive without water

News

Life

Mysterious mega-swan once waddled through New Zealand

News