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A rare tribe lacks music for dancing or soothing their young ones

Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas

The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself

Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg explores the ethics of human specimen collections in Is a Biobank a Home?

Evidence of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers on the island could reshape our understanding of human settlement in the Mediterranean

Underwater, the mantas circled Evie, ready for a game. A work of fiction.

Tree-ring records suggest that drought played a role in Roman Britain’s decline

The geography of loss, in two imaginative charts

Stephen S. Hall on writing his new book Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

The Sombrero Galaxy returns in a revamped Hubble image

Intimations of mortality are not ours alone