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New Scientist - Being Human
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New Scientist - The World's No. 1 Science and Technology News Service
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Chinese and Nigerian men join elite genome club
Racial barriers have toppled as two anonymous men have become the first non-white, non-celebrities to have their full genomes sequenced
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In search of the missing Stone Age tribes
Little evidence has been unearthed of those who lived in Europe during the last big bout of climate change. Have we been looking in the wrong place, asks (full text available to subscribers)
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Ancient corpse is earliest known shaman
Artefacts, such as tortoise shells and a human foot, buried in a 12,000-year-old grave suggest the owner mediated with the spirit world
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Ancient remains are of earliest known shaman
Artefacts, such as tortoise shells and a human foot, buried in a 12,000-year-old grave suggest the owner mediated with the spirit world
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The secret life of the brain
Weird and wonderful things start to happen when you put your brain in neutral, finds (full text available to subscribers)
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How online games are solving uncomputable problems
Addictive games that tap your brainpower without you noticing can crack problems that have defeated the most powerful computers, says (full text available to subscribers)
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Fine line between speech and song revealed
The tendency of a spoken phrase to morph into a song when repeated is shedding light on how the brain perceives voices
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How brainpower is solving 'uncomputable' problems
Online games that tap your brainpower without you noticing can crack problems that have defeated the most powerful computers, says (full text available to subscribers)
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Women's hands boast more bugs
A sensitive sampling of the DNA on human skin has revealed that while women's hands get washed more often, they teem with more species of bacteria
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Mystery of the missing Stone Age bodies
Little evidence has been unearthed of those who lived in Europe during the last big bout of climate change. Have we been looking in the wrong place, asks (full text available to subscribers)
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