44,000-year-old hunting scene is earliest painted ‘story’ ever found
11 December 2019
Cave paintings discovered in Indonesia reveal ancient artists were conjuring imagined scenes 20,000 years earlier than we thought – but who painted them?
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Smart doorbells may be fun, but we don’t know who is using your face
11 December 2019
Training facial recognition algorithms requires masses of data, and big tech companies can go to extreme lengths to get that, says Annalee Newitz
Why it’s time to call time on the ‘nature vs nurture’ debate
11 December 2019
How much of our make-up is predetermined by our genes, and how much by our environment? The truth is that we're asking entirely the wrong question
D’oh! Why human beings aren’t as intelligent as we think
11 December 2019
Human attempts to define intelligence are largely motivated by a desire to prove we have more of it – but a look at the world around us suggests a different story
Firms and governments use the internet to spy on us. Should we care?
11 December 2019
Our increased reliance on the internet and smart tech means we are watched more than ever before. Is that something to fight – or is our concept of privacy just outdated?
Who do you think you are? Why your sense of self is an illusion
11 December 2019
Most of us are convinced that we're coherent individuals who are continuous in time. There's just one problem with this sense of self – it can’t exist
Think you understand how evolution works? You're probably wrong
11 December 2019
A common misconception is that evolution naturally selects for biological complexity, eventually creating advanced organisms like us. That couldn't be further from the truth
A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young
4 December 2019
A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young and offers evidence that humans have evolved to be more domesticated in a similar way to dogs
