How the Sphinx is helping answer a riddle about extinct crocodiles
New technology is helping to identify extinct fossil species.
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‘What we leave behind is not as important as how we’ve lived’: remembering actor Patrick Stewart
Passing away this week at 86, Stewart will be remembered as actor, dramaturge, Shakespearean exemplar, mutant professor, and distinguished Starfleet captain.
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How porn became so extreme – and how it’s shaping the sex lives of young people
Extreme pornography has become readily available on mainstream porn sites. Clare McGlynn explains what this is doing to the sex lives of young people.
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What animal bones in Malawi teach us about the social lives of people long ago
The bones of animals at an archaeological site in Malawi show that food was scarce over the last 21,000 years, but people didn’t cooperate far and wide to get it.
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Is sexual objectification hard-wired? Our study used electrical brain stimulation to find out
Flipping photos upside down usually exposes a bias in how we see women’s bodies. A weak current to the forehead made it disappear.
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70 years ago the Suez crisis exposed British relative decline. Today, the Iran conflict could be doing the same for the US
Suez showed that Britain had lost the leeway to behave like a superpower.
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Who mapped Africa? Debunking the myth that Europeans alone plotted the continent
African guides drew lines in the sand to help Europeans understand the terrain. But they rarely got the credit.
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Spain’s high-speed train network is plagued by old signalling systems. They may have caused the deadly crash
The crash has killed 69 people, and injured scores more.
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Werewolf mice, ghostly frogs and zombie cockroaches: the animal versions of our Halloween horrors
They have creepy tendencies but these animals are real not fictional.
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Israel election by the numbers: who might form the next government?
A who’s who of Israeli politicians who could feature in the next government.
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