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Black-and-white photo of room with Native America clothes and artefacts on the wall

Humans

Love your anthropological collection? Then hand it back

Curating culturally sensitive objects sometimes means letting them go, says Chip Colwell in his book Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

Culture

Crowded pedestrian crossing in a city

Technology

A population paradox could help us outrun our doom

Culture

archaeology

Humans

Three Stones Make a Wall: the inside story of archaeology

Culture

books

The 2017 Wellcome book prize shortlist is dramatic and diverse

Culture

Jasmina Cibic’s Unforseen Forseens

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Making an art out of medical record-keeping

Culture

Mission control

Space

Go at throttle up: The secret world of NASA’s mission control

Culture

mugshots

Humans

How we represent ourselves can distort our identity

Culture

language

Humans

How the brain's ability to time travel may have led to speech

Culture

robot body

Life

Exploring the hidden politics of the quest to live forever

Culture

computer

Technology

War by any means: The story of DARPA

With the nature of war changing fast, what goes on in the Pentagon’s most secretive research agency, asks the first insider to lift the lid in The Imagineers of War

Culture

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Can a new history of vaccination silence doubters?

Culture

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China's workers need help to fight factories' toxic practices

Culture

Life

How did the zebra get its stripes?

Culture

Humans

How we lost the world-changing power of useless knowledge

Culture

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