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City simulations

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We need to talk about technology that people use to influence others

Multi-agent artificial intelligence simulations could show us how to help people live in harmony – or how to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment. We must agree rules for its use

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The story of how humans got to the Americas isn’t a simple one

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Prehistoric baby bottles found in Bronze and Iron Age sites in Germany

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Portrait of juvenile female Denisovan, based on DNA analysis

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This is almost certainly not what Denisovans looked like

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Cave bear skeleton

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Europe’s extinct cave bears went into decline just as humans arrived

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TV programme Vikings depicts the exploits of raiding warriors

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Genetic analysis reveals Vikings had a wide and diverse family tree

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Geek coastline

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Our species got to Europe 165,000 years earlier than we thought

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The archaeological site near the Yana River. Alla Mashezerskaya maps the artefacts in the area where two 31,000-year-old milk teeth were found.

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Children’s teeth reveal previously unknown ancient humans in Siberia

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A worker checks the jars used to contain rice wine at Shaoxing Nuerhong Winery Company in Shaoxing, east China's Zhejiang Province. The company maintains its traditional rice wine brewing method, which is composed of nearly 20 processing steps.

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Early farmers liked alcohol so much they invented two ways to brew it

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Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science

If we know the idea of difference based purely on race is wrong, why do we still hang on to the idea of race in science, asks science writer Angela Saini.

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How the young can rejuvenate the old

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How humans are shaping the planet: are we in the anthropocene?

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Earth

Underland is a profound journey into the mirror world of the dead

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Genetics studies are too white – that’s failing people and science

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