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Named "Leti", the Homo naledi child's skull fragments were found in an extremely hard to access chamber of the Rising Star cave system.

Humans

Homo naledi infant skull discovery suggests they buried their dead

The partial skull of a Homo naledi child from around 250,000 years ago has been found in a deep, inaccessible cave 鈥� suggesting it was placed there by other H. naledi.

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man lying on his bed

Mind

Tiny region of human brain that helps regulate sleep studied at last

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Woman's eye with cross hair and Facebook logo

Technology

Why is Facebook ditching face recognition and will it delete my data?

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Sunrise over Saginaw bay, Michigan

Environment

Global CO2 emissions have almost returned to pre-pandemic levels

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Environment

COP26 news: Toothless net-zero plans and lack of disability inclusion

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Humans

Is it true that use of synthetic fertiliser is increasing everywhere?

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Alzheimer's disease. Series of coloured computed tomography (CT) scans of an axial section through the head of a 74-year-old patient with Alzheimer's disease. The front of the brain (brown) is at the top. Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease and a common cause of dementia in the elderly. It causes brain atrophy (decrease in size), shown here by the enlarged ventricle cavities (white, at centre of brain) and the widened pale blue regions. The brain shrinkage caused by Alzheimer's disease leads to memory loss, confusion, personality changes and ultimately death. The cause of Alzheimer's disease is not known and there is no cure.

Mind

Treating Alzheimer’s as having many causes may help us beat it

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Delegates gather in a large room under a balloon with the Earth printed on it at the COP26 climate summit

Environment

Has COP26 put the world on track for holding global warming to 1.5掳C?

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W7TWG5 Great round leaf bat (Hipposideros armiger) in flight in cave, Guilin City, Guangxi Province, China, Novembery.

Life

Bats鈥� landing styles differ depending on where they roost

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Person using an ATM

Technology

Einstein’s theory of relativity could help stop bank account hackers

Having to hand over your PIN to access your bank account puts you at risk of hackers, but the fact that information can't travel faster than light, as laid out by Albert Einstein, could offer a solution

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Life

Baleen whales eat three times more krill than we thought

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Mind

A new kind of brain scan is letting us understand how toddlers think

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Life

Red feathers determine which common waxbill is the boss

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Life

Dogs may get worse separation anxiety when left alone with another dog

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