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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

31 January 2018

We thought that our ancestors were confined to Africa until 120,000 years ago, but a fossil from an Israeli cave reveals an earlier exodus over 170,000 years ago

We shouldn't hide the gory details of how meat reaches our plate

31 January 2018

Eating animals is a choice we are all entitled to make but we should at least do so with consideration of their lives and deaths

We must stand up to bad politics, not hide in an ivory tower

31 January 2018

Science journalism is about more than pure science. When powerful people of any political leaning go against the evidence, New Scientist cannot turn a blind eye

Old Scientist: Separating the sheep from the sheep

31 January 2018

What sort of high-tech innovation would you expect to see coming out of New Zealand? Livestock looms large in February issues of New Scientist past

A more humane way of slaughtering chickens might get EU approval

30 January 2018

A new system that apparently kills chickens without distress by lowering the air pressure could soon be approved in Europe, offering a humane death for billions of birds

Technician injects fluid into MinION DNA sequencer

Pocket-sized scanner helps fill gaps in the human genome

29 January 2018

A device barely bigger than a USB stick has produced the most complete human genome to date

Young 'dinosauromorphs' may have begged for food like baby birds

26 January 2018

Tens of millions of years before dinosaurs evolved into birds, a proto-dinosaur had surprising features that suggest its young needed parental care after hatching