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Sentinel-5 seafloor scene

Environment

Could undersea living be the future as sea levels rise?

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, we journey to 2035, when undersea living became a reality. Rowan Hooper tells us how it happened

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Five tests will help you understand the full scope of your imagination

Mind

Five tests will help you understand the full scope of your imagination

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The four types of imagination and how they create our worlds

Mind

The four types of imagination and how they create our worlds

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Humans

What the complete ape genome is revealing about the earliest humans

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How vanishing Y chromosomes could help explain men's ill health

Health

How vanishing Y chromosomes could help explain men's ill health

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Health

The evolution of easier births means slower walking and pelvis issues

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Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin

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Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin

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PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 08: (EDITORS NOTE: Image was captured using a remote camera) Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of Team United States crosses the finish line to win the gold medal with new World Record after competing in the Women's 400m Hurdles Final on day thirteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 08, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

Humans

A controversial book about human diversity shows how biology unites us

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Humans

Ancient face bones offer clues to identity of early humans in Europe

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Humans

The biggest coincidence in human evolution

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means of communicating with each other – how did it crop up independently at about the same time?

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Humans

Humans were living in tropical forests surprisingly early

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Humans

22,000-year-old tracks are earliest evidence of transport vehicles

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Chris Stringer is tracing human ancestors back a million years

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Most Europeans may have had dark skin until less than 3000 years ago

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