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The other Homo sapiens

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them? - by Nick Longrich...

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Nick Longrich

The plea: defeating smallpox

The US filmmaker Neil Halloran is known for short documentaries that combine illuminating data visualisation with powerful storytelling. In his...

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Out of the fog

On 5 September 1774, in a small town overlooking the Baltic Sea, a Lutheran candle-maker and his wife welcomed their sixth child into the world....

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Gianluca Didino

Woods

Featuring audio restored from a 1956 recording, this video features the British American poet W H Auden (1907-73) performing his poem ‘Woods’...

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Moral refuge

There are currently 43.7 million refugees worldwide. These are people who have been forced to flee their home countries due to severe threats to...

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Bradley Hillier-Smith

Going equipped

The celebrated UK studio Aardman Animations is best known for lighthearted claymation comedies including the Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep...

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The entangled brain

When thousands of starlings swoop and swirl in the evening sky, creating patterns called murmurations, no single bird is choreographing this aerial...

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Luiz Pessoa