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Earth

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

An emotional and intellectual voyage into an underground mythical world imagined by the Sami people reveals truths about our collective future

Culture

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Humans

Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?

News

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

News

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Humans

Ancient humans thrived in rainforests by hunting monkeys and squirrels

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Don't miss: 500 years of women in medicine and the future of design

Culture

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Life

Don't miss: Rebuilding the past, Xmas orbiting the moon and AI art

Culture

Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

Life

Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

News

Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

Life

Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

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Anna Machin: Is technology changing how humans behave?

Video

Anna Machin: Is technology changing how humans behave?

Video

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Humans

We thought the Incas couldn't write. These knots change everything

A lost language encoded in intricate cords is finally revealing its secrets – and it could upend what we know about Incan history and culture

Features

Life

Edge of Memory: Distrusting oral tradition may make us more ignorant

Culture

Humans

Asia’s mysterious role in the early origins of humanity

Features

Humans

London's Horniman Museum has squeezed a world into a room

Culture

Humans

Stem cells may reveal how Neanderthal DNA works in modern humans

News