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Neanderthals are a closely related species of human that... from around 250,000 years ago. They coexisted and intera... our species until they went extinct about 28,000 years a...
The research team explored the idea that the ancestor of ...
The humans

GAKAWA Senior Secondary School is located in Kenya's wes... Province, about 10 kilometres from Nanyuki town. It is n... live. There are no cash crops, no electricity, no phone ...
"For internet access we had to travel the 10 kilometres ...
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Director Jake Schreier talks about his new film, which e...
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The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 201... Thomson Reuters are the only global university performan... world class universities across all of their core missio... research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. ... universitie

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We’ve long been fascinated with makerspaces, the DIY e ...
San Francisco is one such locale, with such a robust com ...

Why use a task runner?
In one word: automation. The less work you have to do wh ...

The tech giant's 'wearable computing' project is now bei... volunteers, meaning you might already have been surrepti... uploaded on to Google's servers. How worried should you be?

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The European Commission has launched a "grand coalition"... region's IT skills shortages.

With "immersive media" taking content well beyond the TV... technology is attempting to move virtual reality towards... closer to real life.
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So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

MYO - Wearable Gesture Control from Thalmic Labs

The gold fibres in the uniform, the product of years of ... actually do that communications work yet. Currently, the... a uniform," Joannopoulos tells Wired.com: They're about ... diameter, and Joannopoulos wants to scale down to 100 mi...
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People like lists of things. They're everywhere on the i... any subject matter you can think of, odds are there's a ... Nowhere is safe. Even here, on the Guardian Science sect... most popular articles in recent months is a list. But wh... popular? We

RIPS is a static source code analyser for vulnerabilitie... webapplications. It was released during the Month of PHP... (www.php-security.org).

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The world around us is increasingly governed by these al... annoyingly dumb and some freakishly intelligent. Because... generally mimic decisions that used to be made directly ... tendency to humanise the results and can easily be horri...
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The National Public Toilet Map (the Toilet Map) shows th... than 16,000 public and private public toilet facilities ... Details of toilet facilities can also be found along maj... and for shorter journeys as well. Useful information is ... toilet, suc

Map of Salopek's route
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I am delighted to host a guest blog by Julia Campbell fr... works for the Coigach Community Development Company but ... expresses here are her personal views. They were submitt... the Land Reform Review Group.

Mark Shanley, an Irish graphic designer, turned his favo... feedback comments” into hilarious posters. Now that’... criticism.

The sharp drop in Arctic sea ice area has been matched b... but equally sharp, drop in sea ice thickness. The combin... a collapse in total sea ice volume — to one fifth of i...
Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via ...