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Space

The Longest Goodbye review: A poignant documentary on space psychology

Astronaut Cady Coleman playing duets with her Earth-bound son is among the moving and candid moments from The Longest Goodbye, Ido Mizrahy's poignant exploration of the psychology of space travel

Culture

Paranthropus, early human relative

Humans

Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools

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Central Henge, Thornborough Henges. ?Historic England Archive

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Neolithic complex dubbed ‘Stonehenge of the North’ opens to UK public

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Person milking a cow

Humans

Milk may have fuelled a growth spurt in ancient Europeans

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Cave painting of cattle

Humans

Mysterious symbols in cave paintings may be earliest form of writing

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Neanderthal or Homo Sapiens Family Cooking Animal Meat over Bonfire and then Eating it. Tribe of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers Wearing Animal Skins Eating in a Dark Scary Cave at Night; Shutterstock ID 1595983549; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Humans

When did hominins start cooking? It might be earlier than we thought

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We have finally found the land of Punt, where pharaohs got their gifts

Humans

We have finally found the land of Punt, where pharaohs got their gifts

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Visualizing inferred human ancestral lineages over time and space. Each line represents an ancestor-descendant relationship in our inferred genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. The width of a line corresponds to how many times the relationship is observed, and lines are colored on the basis of the estimated age of the ancestor.

Humans

A family tree of humanity released in 2022 shows how we're all related

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M26NDA Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (south-eastern France): OCaverne du Pont-d'ArcO, replica of the Chauvet Cave, registered as a Unesco World Heritage Site. It gathers

Humans

Homo Sapiens Rediscovered review: Hunting human origin stories

Culture

RC8A08 Woman beside glass window

Humans

The science of self-knowledge is important, even if it is a bit fuzzy

Who you really are is a major question worth pursuing for most people, so research into self-knowledge is important despite the fact it often relies on subjective findings

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Health

Antibiotics encoded in Neanderthal DNA could help us fight infections

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Humans

Modern humans evolved a 'selfish' X chromosome after Africa exodus

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Humans

Early humans may have cooked fish in ovens 780,000 years ago

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Humans

Despite reaching 8 billion people, we must plan for population decline

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