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A customer walks down a skincare aisle at an Ulta Beauty Inc. store in New York, U.S., on Thursday, May 31, 2018. Ulta reported late Thursday??that its comparable sales rose 8.1 percent in the first quarter from??a year earlier. The increase was driven by all the right things: A booming 48 percent increase in digital sales,??as well as 5.1 percent growth in transactions and a 3 percent increase in average ticket. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Health

The only four skincare ingredients that have been proven to work

In the quest for better skin, we are faced with an overwhelming choice of creams and serums to enhance our appearance. Here's what works – and what doesn't

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Humans

Ancient hominin Lucy was a lousy runner, simulations show

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Humans

Ancient genomes reveal when modern humans and Neanderthals interbred

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Survival of the wittiest: Could wordplay have boosted human evolution?

Humans

Survival of the wittiest: Could wordplay have boosted human evolution?

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Humans

Game-changing archaeology from the past 5 years – and what’s to come

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BRDEHN Evolution sign on a theme park ride.

Life

The theory of evolution can evolve without rejecting Darwinism

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The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate

Life

The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate

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Comparison between fossil footprints thought to be from Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei

Humans

Ancient footprints show how early human species lived side by side

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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

Life

Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

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Heart cockle shells

Life

Heart-shaped mollusc has windows that work like fibre optics

Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them – and they could show us how to make better fibre-optic cables

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Life

A 200-year-old mystery about newts has finally been solved

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Humans

How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans

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Technology

People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson

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Life

Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains

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