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We evolved to match local micronutrient levels, which may be a problem

Most human populations evolved to cope with low or high local levels of micronutrients such as zinc, but these localised adaptations might now be problematic

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Los Angeles - CIRCA 1985: Author William Gibson poses for a portrait circa 1985 in Oakland, California (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)

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Is Neuromancer's cyberpunk dystopia still thrilling in 2025?

Culture

Illustration of a teenage girl who is the offspring of a Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) mother and Denisovan (Homo sapiens denisova) father. A bone fragment with this hybrid ancestry was found in the Denisova Cave in Russia. The bone belonged to a female who was at least 13 years old and died around 90,000 years ago. It was known from genetic analysis of other fossils that the two species had interbred, but this is the first first-generation offspring of such a pairing to be found.

Humans

Understanding the Denisovans means understanding ourselves

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A skull unearthed in Harbin, China, turns out to belong to a Denisovan

Humans

An incredible Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution

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Did childcare fuel language? A new book makes the case

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Cyclists and commuters make their ways home in evening sunshine at the junction of Fleet Street and Ludgate Hill in the City of London, aka the Square Mile - the capital's financial district, on 4th April 2023, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)

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I'm a cyclist. Will the arrival of robotaxis make my journeys safer?

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Humans

Exploring humanity's ancient origins in fantastic new BBC documentary

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Technology

NASA and IBM built an AI to predict solar flares before they hit Earth

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Someone with paralysis using the brain-computer interface. The text above is the cued sentence and the text below is what is being decoded in real-time as she imagines speaking the sentence

Mind

Mind-reading AI can turn even imagined speech into spoken words

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Humans

Fossil teeth may come from a new species of early hominin

Some 2.6-million-year-old teeth found in Ethiopia hint that an unknown species from the Australopithecus genus coexisted with one of our Homo relatives, but it is hard to draw firm conclusions from the evidence

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Humans

Why a mysterious group of ancient humans doesn’t have a species name

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Technology

How AI poisoning is fighting bots that hoover data without permission

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Chemistry

Super-sticky hydrogel is 10 times stronger than other glues underwater

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Technology

'Universal' detector spots AI deepfake videos with record accuracy

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