4 h. ago New study of fossilized bones rewrites history of early human ancestors

Discovery challenges the long-standing view of Homo habilis as the first skilled toolmaker

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41 h. ago How Iron Age Britons performed human sacrifices to tell the future: Unearthed body rewrites history books

Physical proof of barbaric Iron Age ritual killings has been discovered in a field near Bere Regis, in Dorset, after archaeologists uncovered two skeletons dated to between 100 and 50 BC.

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1 week ago Bones of young woman 'abandoned' at South Pole could rewrite history of Antarctic exploration

Chilean woman's identity and the exact circumstances of her death remain a mystery

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3 w. ago World has reached a ‘critical turning point’ in switch to renewable energy

Solar and wind power outpaced the growth in worldwide electricity demand

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3 w. ago Lessons for the woke generation by PIERS MORGAN: Don't fall for victimhood, never censor yourself, beware of the 'envy machine'... and failure is not fatal. What every young person MUST know

Today's young people may be the first in human history to be taught that self-identity is more important than their role in a group, writes Piers Morgan

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3 w. ago How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation

From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the futureWhat happens when an internationally bestselling historian, a Nobel peace prize-winning journalist and a former politician get together to discuss the state of the world, and where we’re heading? Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli medieval and military historian best known for his panoramic surveys of human history, including Sapiens, Homo Deus and, most recently, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. Maria Ressa, joint winner of the Nobel peace prize, is a Filipino and American journalist who co-founded the news website Rappler. And Rory Stewart is a British academic and former Conservative MP, writer and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast. Their conversation ranged over the rise of AI, the crisis in democracy and the prospect of a Trump-Putin wedding, but began by considering a question central to all of their work: how to live a good...

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4 w. ago Animal rock art discovery rewrites human history in the Middle East

Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals

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