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Articles about human life, archaeology, anthropology, palaeoanthropology, philosophy and history of science...
17 September 2018
What would it be like if the Naked Scientists visited your school?
11 September 2018
Marika Ottman is an Aerospace Engineering student at Virginia Tech, in the United States. She completed a summer...
23 August 2018
Newly-discovered genes that helped supersize human brains along with DNA retrieved from extinct humans, which can still...
14 August 2018
Have you ever wondered how The Naked Scientists make science so accessible and interesting? The Naked Scientists’...
10 July 2018
The DNA from 5000 ancient bone fragments from New Zealand reveals the cost to the natural world of human arrival...
22 May 2018
We've been unpicking the genomes of T. rex's descendents to find out...
23 April 2018
Ever wanted to know what that The Naked Scientists get up to when they go on tour?
08 March 2018
The acoustic qualities of a rock shelter may have been a key factor in its selection as a site for rock art and...
05 March 2018
How dinosaurs turned into modern-day birds...
22 January 2018
Why almost 90% of humans are right handed is a mystery. The hypothesis presented here is that having your heart on the...
18 January 2018
Why did 76% of species become extinct 65 million years ago...?
13 January 2018
Significant palaeoenvironmental changes that occurred during the Quaternary, the most recent geological period, could...
09 December 2017
In the spring of 2015 my mother-in-law was dying of breast cancer. She had exhausted the usual routes of therapy...
30 November 2017
What do the UK-based editor of a leading technology magazine and a self-taught coder from a low-income neighbourhood in...
24 November 2017
Did the evolutionary process towards musical abilities begin in the primeval oceans? And have Human footsteps...
02 November 2017
Mummified bodies from Egypt and the Canary Islands are having their digestive tracts tested and compared to living...
04 September 2017
How reptiles turned into mammals...
26 April 2017
In the era of fake news, what challenges do science communicators have to overcome?
09 April 2017
In the 1940s and 1950s, more than 40,000 “lobotomies” were performed in the USA alone. Doctors essentially removed the...
09 June 2016
What do two separate fields of science say regarding the existence of free will?
01 June 2016
How the Nazis were stopped from obtaining "heavy water", an ingredient key in making an atomic bomb.
04 May 2016
An opinion piece on the scientific arguments being put forward for 'Brexit'.
24 September 2015
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