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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Concerns raised over Indian government's plan for face recognition
11 December 2019
India's government wants to build one of the largest face recognition systems in the world, but campaigners are concerned
Young people can't remember how much more wildlife there used to be
11 December 2019
A phenomenon called shifting baseline syndrome means we easily forget how much more wildlife there used to be – and it may hamper conservation campaigns
DNA site GEDmatch sold to firm helping US police solve crime
10 December 2019
One of the world’s biggest genealogy websites has been bought by a company that provides law enforcement agencies with genomic sequencing technology for forensic DNA work
We finally know how whole planets grow from tiny clumps of dust
9 December 2019
Minuscule dust particles can clump together to form entire planets, and they seem to require help from static electricity so they don’t bounce off one another
AI is helping tackle one of the biggest unsolved problems in maths
9 December 2019
Machine-learning algorithms are being used to tackle the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the fiendishly difficult Millennium Prize Problems
At least five dead after White Island volcano eruption in New Zealand
9 December 2019
A volcanic island in New Zealand has erupted, killing at least five people with dozens more missing
North America’s first English settlers were unlucky scientists
7 December 2019
The English founded Jamestown, Virginia in the 17th century to search for gold. They didn’t find much, but that wasn’t for lack of effort or scientific skill
Scientists issue wake-up call on dangerous loss of oxygen from oceans
7 December 2019
The world’s oceans have lost 2 per cent of their oxygen on average over the past 50 years, alarming scientists who warn that the trend will impact fisheries
Exclusive: Two pigs engineered to have monkey cells born in China
6 December 2019
Two pig-monkey chimeras were born in China but died within a week. This is the first time live pigs have been created that contain some primate cells
