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Our brains might sense Earth’s magnetic field just like birds do

Some magnetic field alterations cause changes in our brain activity, suggesting a magnetic sense could have played a role in the nomadic lives of our hunter-gatherer ancestors

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Students prepare a stew over an open fire at the stone age park near Albersdorf, Germany. Students of the University of Hamburg took on the roles of people from the stone age as part of one of their classes

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Humans couldn’t pronounce ‘f’ and ‘v’ sounds before farming developed

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Health

Opt-out organ donation law: Your questions answered

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Sailors spread the ancient fashion for monuments like Stonehenge

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Life

How nature is evolving in the human age

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Life

Chasing the Sun review: Light’s power over life charted

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A neanderthal skull

Environment

The last Neanderthals may have died out much earlier than we thought

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2018’s weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons

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Earth

Anthropocene review – tough film makes case for human-created epoch

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Indigenous peoples in the Amazon and Australia share some ancestry

Fifteen ancient human genomes reveal how people first spread through the Americas – and strengthen a mysterious link between people in the Amazon and in Australasia

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World’s first figurative art is of an unknown animal in Borneo

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Martin Rees: The posthuman future

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Idly tapping your fingers can make you think time has slowed down

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The Book of Humans review – a smart update on human exceptionalism

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