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Why adding a road can increase traffic and other modelling delights
18 August 2021
Katy Börner's Atlas of Forecasts is packed full of interesting ways to model our world and predict what will happen. The question is, will people accept their wisdom?
We need to fully explore the planet to understand our species' origins
18 August 2021
The study of human evolution has neglected huge areas of Earth, and recent discoveries from Arabia suggest these places have a lot to tell us
The other cradle of humanity: How Arabia shaped human evolution
18 August 2021
New evidence reveals that Arabia was not a mere stopover for ancestral humans leaving Africa, but a lush homeland where they flourished and evolved
Ancient dog faeces show how our canine friends became omnivores
13 August 2021
Gut microbes helped ancient dogs eat starch-rich food when farming led to a change in diet for people and their animals, an analysis of 3500-year-old dog faeces reveals
