Are these Denisovan teeth? We may never know
Analysis of fossil teeth reveals that the children of mysterious prehistoric human relatives grew slowly – just like us. Dyani Lewis reports.
Changing the dynamics of getting older
In this issue: Manufacturing in space: factories of the future – Brian Cox on activism – A brief history of spacetime – ‘Osteo-biographies‘ of the dead at Stonehenge – Alex the Astronaut meets Alex, an Astronaut
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How many photons in the universe? Go on, have a guess
Calculations reveal enormous number, but with surprisingly dim effect. Andrew Masterson reports.
Mathematicians zero in on the birth of Hypatia
Probability theory deployed to recalculate the birth date of antiquity’s most famous female scholar. Gabriella Bernardi reports.
Science history: The ex-slave who transformed the American South
George Washington Carver became a pioneering agricultural scientist – working, literally, for peanuts. Jeff Glorfeld reports.
Meet the beetle that lives and eats in ant nests
Rarely seen species lives entirely on carpenter ant juices. Tanya Loos reports.
