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Could hibernation technology allow humans to skip winters?
All over the northern hemisphere, millions of animals are tucked up somewhere safe, hibernating through the cold, ready…
Mesopotamians felt happiness in their liver and anger in their thighs
Modern and Mesopotamian people embody emotions in different ways Modern/PNAS: Lauri Nummenmaa et al. 2014, Mesopotamian: Juha Lahnakoski…
People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson
Readers rated AI-mimicry of Shakespeare’s poems above the author’s real works North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy Most…
We now know who was cannibalised on the doomed Franklin expedition
The Franklin expedition was dramatised in television show The Terror AMC Human remains recovered from the British Royal…
How shrinking populations could help to save our planet
In 1968, husband and wife biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, a terrifying look at…
Ancient canoes hint at bustling trade in Mediterranean 7000 years ago
The canoes are up to 10 metres long and made from hollowed out trees Gibaja et al., 2024,…
Did the people of Easter Island independently invent writing?
Wooden tablets containing a language of glyphs called Rongorongo may be evidence that the people of Rapa Nui,…
The hidden rules that determine which friendships matter to us
FACEBOOK users used to have a lot more friends. The social networking site pursues a commercial strategy of…