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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.

Humans

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

Residues on pottery from two 7000-year-old sites in China suggest early farmers developed two different ways to brew alcoholic drinks

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

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

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How the young can rejuvenate the old

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

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Svalbard vault

Earth

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

Culture

Tipping pills into hand

Comment

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

Comment

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

Mind

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

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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

Humans

Humans couldn't pronounce 'f' and 'v' sounds before farming developed

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Opt-out organ donation law: Your questions answered

Health

Opt-out organ donation law: Your questions answered

Organ donation in England will take place on an opt-out basis from next year, now that a new law has been passed by MPs. But its effects on donation rates may be being overstated, finds Clare Wilson

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Sailors spread the ancient fashion for monuments like Stonehenge

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How nature is evolving in the human age

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Life

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

Culture

Humans

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

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