• Elon Musk plans to get humans to Mars in six years

  SpaceX founder Elon Musk has outlined his highly ambitious vision for manned missions to Mars, which he said could begin as soon as 2022 – three years sooner than his previous estimates.

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  Related: Elon Musk says it would take 40 to 100 years to build a self-sustaining civilization on Mars
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• Did Neanderthals talk like you? Scans of fossil ear bones from extinct human cousins show they were tuned for vocal communication

  They were dismissed as stupid and primitive by the archaeologists who first studied their fossilised bones, but it seems Neanderthals may have been just as chatty as our own species.

  Researchers have discovered evidence that suggests Neanderthals may have used vocal communication just like our own species Homo sapiens.

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  Alt: Neanderthal and modern human ear bones

• Horses found able to use symbols to convey their desire for a blanket

  A team of researchers at Norwegian University of Life Sciences has found that horses are capable of reading symbols on a sign and using them to convey a desire—whether they want a blanket put on them or not. The researchers have written a paper describing their efforts with the horses and have had it published in the journal Applied Animal Behavior Science.

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Exclusive: Extract from forthcoming Volume 3 of the War God series by Graham Hancock

I’ve spent the summer writing 16 hours a day 7 days a week completing Volume 3 of my War God series of novels about the Spanish conquest of Mexico. It has been a VERY intense writing experience. To celebrate I’m offering a short extract, hot off my desk, below. It […]

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