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Humans

Easily taxed grains were crucial to the birth of the first states

The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large societies, rather than agriculture generally

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Mind

Your brain undergoes four dramatic periods of change from age 0 to 90

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seafloor covered with manganese nodules

Environment

Have we found a greener way to do deep-sea mining?

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Life

Sperm's evolutionary origins go back before multicellular animals

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Environment

Why is climate action stalling, not ramping up as Earth gets hotter?

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Environment

COP30 keeps climate cooperation alive but hanging by a thread

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Space

Astronomers may have glimpsed evidence of the biggest stars ever seen

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The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica

Environment

Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf

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Life

Ancient tracks may record stampede of turtles disturbed by earthquake

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Yonathan Cohen at Quantum Machines speaking at AQC25 conference

Technology

Quantum computers need classical computing to be truly useful

Conventional computing devices will play a crucial role in turning quantum computers into tools with real-world application

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Health

Common type of inflammatory bowel disease linked to toxic bacteria

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Life

Moss spores survive and germinate after 283-day 'space walk'

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Life

Mouse 'midwives' help their pregnant companions give birth

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Health

Daily pill could offer alternative to weight-loss injections

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