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Humans

Researchers re-enact a 30,000 year old sea voyage

Recreating a 30,000-year-old journey, researchers cross a powerful ocean current in a Stone Age-style canoe, proving how early humans may have reached Japan from Taiwan.

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Chemistry

Vapour-sniffing drug detector tested at the US-Mexico border

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Mathematics

AI could be about to completely change the way we do mathematics

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Humans

‘Hybrid’ skull may have been a child of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens

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Environment

Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide into stone

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Environment

Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a super-greenhouse

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Technology

Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to disrupt power grids

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Chemistry

We finally understand why quasicrystals can exist

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Technology

Quantum-enhanced supercomputers are starting to do chemistry

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Space

Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar system formed

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the asteroid belt, but now a meteorite from the outer solar system is rewriting that view

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Environment

Carbon-offset schemes aren’t prepared for forests to burn

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Health

Energy drinks could cause less dental damage with a simple addition

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Health

3D printing could enable a long-term treatment for type 1 diabetes

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Technology

Quantum computers are surprisingly random – but that’s a good thing

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