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Genetics studies are too white – that’s failing people and science

Three-quarters of people in studies linking genetics and health are of white European descent, leading us to miss vital clues, says researcher Scott Williams

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Our brains might sense Earth's magnetic field just like birds do

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Our brains might sense Earth's magnetic field just like birds do

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Students prepare a stew over an open fire at the stone age park near Albersdorf, Germany. Students of the University of Hamburg took on the roles of people from the stone age as part of one of their classes

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Humans couldn't pronounce 'f' and 'v' sounds before farming developed

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Opt-out organ donation law: Your questions answered

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Opt-out organ donation law: Your questions answered

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Sailors spread the ancient fashion for monuments like Stonehenge

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How nature is evolving in the human age

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How nature is evolving in the human age

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Life

Chasing the Sun review: Light's power over life charted

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A neanderthal skull

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The last Neanderthals may have died out much earlier than we thought

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2018’s weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons

2018’s weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons

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Anthropocene review – tough film makes case for human-created epoch

From Kenyan children picking through plastic waste to swathes of Germany laid waste for coal mining, a film shows why we are in a new, human-created epoch

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Indigenous peoples in the Amazon and Australia share some ancestry

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World's first figurative art is of an unknown animal in Borneo

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Martin Rees: The posthuman future

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Idly tapping your fingers can make you think time has slowed down

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