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Photos of a newborn infant being carefully cradled by the medical professional helping to deliver it. The photos are taken from the perspective of the parent giving birth.

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Why is childbirth so hard for humans – and is it getting even harder?

Some think the rise of C-sections means that one day all births will require serious medical intervention. But a surprising new understanding of the pelvis suggests a different story

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The best new popular science books of February 2026

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The best new popular science books of February 2026

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Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old ecosystem

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Why did magic mushrooms evolve? We may finally have the answer

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Procoptodon prehistoric kangaroo

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Ancient giant kangaroos could have hopped despite their huge size

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Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes

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Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought

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Common Octopus

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Octopuses prompt rethink of why animals evolve big brains

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Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans

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Jellyfish sleep about as much as humans do – and nap like us too

The benefits of sleep may be more universal than we thought. We know it helps clear waste from the brain in humans, and now it seems that even creatures without brains like ours get similar benefits

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Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright?

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Human-plant hybrid cells reveal truth about dark DNA in our genome

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2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution

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What the family drama of interbreeding polar and grizzly bears reveals

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