Did meat-eating really play a big role in human evolution?
New study calls an old evolutionary assumption into question.
How hard-wired are humans to be carnivores? How central is meat-eating to our evolutionary history? There’s a wide...
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Martian water nothing but a mirage
Hope for groundwater on the red planet dries up
A wave of excitement rippled through the scientific community in 2018, when researchers announced they had found evid...
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Hippos honk at friends, but tornado poo when strangers are near
Cliquey giants meet the calls of newcomers with aggressive poo-flinging displays
Hippopotamuses might look like they’re taking life easy as they cruise sedately in the water, but new research indica...
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Wiggling stellar jets seen in high resolution
Gemini South telescope catches bright matter snaking across the galaxy.
Stellar jets – bursts of ionised matter, shooting out from opposite sides of a star – can be the subject of some rema...
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How depression makes people vulnerable to misinformation
A bias towards negative thinking is fertile ground for antivax lobbyists.
For years, scientists have been trying to understand what makes a person prone to believing in dangerous conspiracy t...
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We examine every single ingredient.
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