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Humans

Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing

A painstaking investigation of Europe’s cave art has revealed 32 shapes and lines that crop up again and again and could be the world’s oldest code

Features

A close-up of a completed oral sex prosthetic retainer

Technology

Sex and dentistry: I made a fellatio prosthetic for my mouth

News

old street scene

Humans

When politics fills the language gap, can science be neutral?

Culture

beach

Humans

Future Humans: Just how far can our evolution go?

Culture

art installation

Humans

An enormous shape-shifting artwork – run by yeast

Culture

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Humans

Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter

Culture

A zebra

Life

What do our natural laws really say about the world?

Culture

The Electric Kool-Aid language test

Humans

The Electric Kool-Aid language test

Culture

Entering the random world of semi-sentient art

Technology

Entering the random world of semi-sentient art

Culture

Technology

A not-so-delicate buttercup crafted from metal

Artist Carmen Almon painstakingly builds plants from wire and copper sheeting inspired by 17th and 18th century botanical illustrations

Regulars

Life

The paradox of play: Real fun should be terrifying

Culture

Technology

The Optic Cloak: Meet the chimney that isn't there

Culture

Humans

Visions of utopia arrive in London from around the world

Culture

Technology

Cramped, unpleasant and vulgar: is this the internet we planned?

Culture