Working hypothesis: from buzzwords to Amazon workers
29 May 2019
Sorting the week's supernovae from the absolute zeros
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Blood amber: The exquisite trove of fossils fuelling war in Myanmar
1 May 2019
A huge number of finds in newly mined amber are rewriting what we know about the age of the dinosaurs. But getting hold of them may come at a terrible human price
Major discovery suggests Denisovans lived in Tibet 160,000 years ago
1 May 2019
The first Denisovan remains discovered outside Siberia suggest our extinct cousins lived at extreme altitude in Tibet long before our species made it there
2019 Preview: Teeth will reveal our species’ deep evolutionary past
18 December 2018
We will start to learn what a host of ancient animal and early human remains really are, thanks to new techniques for analysing tiny fragments of fossil remains
Life may have begun millions of years earlier than we thought
2 October 2017
Two major studies argue that life arose on Earth very soon after it formed, but both have already come in for heavy criticism
Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils
27 September 2017
You’d be amazed how little evidence supports many of our ancient human ancestors. Here are the five species with the fewest fossils
