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Childhood in the Ice Age — What Was It Like?
Having reached a point now known as the “Sala dei Misteri,” they left signatures of their time there.
Depths of Design: Seductive Optics and Skeuomorphic Intelligence
The effort to mirror objects in the world in our artistic creations reaches back into prehistory.
Monkeys, Not Humans, Likely Made Ancient Brazilian Tools
The stone objects, dated from 50,000 years ago, look like the ones made by capuchin monkeys today.
Prior Fitness for Life: The Problem of Boron
The atomic element boron is essential for life, but how do you get it from stars to plants and animals?
What if Our Muscles Were Less Powerful?
As every medical student comes to learn when first dissecting the human body at medical school, our limbs are almost entirely composed of muscles.