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Earth

Arabia has been green for long spells in the past 8 million years

Ancient rocks reveal there were several humid spells in Arabia鈥檚 past, which might have given early hominins a route out of Africa long before our genus migrated

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Technology

Light-based computers are getting close to a commercial launch

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Physics

Space could emerge from time

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Humans

The hunt for the birthplace of Indo-European languages

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Humans

How mudlarks are uncovering thousands of years of London’s history

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Environment

Ancient rocks boost case for mini ice age linked to fall of Rome

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Physics

How to make great coffee with fewer beans, according to science

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Life

Rethink of fossils hints dinosaurs still thrived before asteroid hit

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Technology

Smell-seeking drone uses moth antenna to follow a scent

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Technology

Quantum computers could protect our data from quantum computers

A powerful enough quantum computer could crack the encryption methods currently used to protect data around the world, but the solution might be a quantum algorithm once thought to be completely useless

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Health

Blood test suggests preeclampsia risk using RNA

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Space

How long is a day on Uranus? Slightly longer than we thought, it seems

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Environment

Trees capture toxic fingerprint of gold mining in the Amazon

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Life

No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction

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