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Researchers say the Australian lungfish, native to the Burnett and Mary Rivers, is the closest living fish relative to humans and other land dwellers.

Archaeologists have managed to get near-perfect notes out of a musical instrument that’s more than 17,000 years old.

They’ve long been thought of as smarter than your average animal, but now researchers claim they have taught pigs to use a joystick, suggesting they are even cleverer than previously thought.

FarFarOut, a large chunk of rock found in 2018 at a whopping distance of around 132 astronomical units from the Sun, has been studied and characterised, and we now know a lot more about it, and its orbit.

Scotland’s remote St Kilda archipelago was inhabited as long as 2,000 years ago, according to archaeologists

Scientific research and indigenous oral traditions have long been separated. But increased interaction is bringing new insight into the past.

Experts hailed the discovery in 2015 as “stunning” — 47 teeth found in a cave in southern China dated back to 80,0000 to 120,000 years ago, challenging widely accepted ideas about human evolution.

Some useful human microorganisms have long, long histories.

On Wednesday (February 3), Cambridge became the second city in Massachusetts to decriminalize natural psychedelics, such as ibogaine, ayahuasca, and psilocybin mushrooms.

A planetary system 200 light-years away has been found locked in a rare orbital dance.

Were the Amazons of ancient Greek mythology — fierce female warriors said to have roamed a vast area around the Black Sea known as Scythia — real?

Bronze age graves, neolithic pottery and the vestiges of a mysterious C-shaped enclosure that might have been a prehistoric industrial area are among the finds unearthed by archaeologists who have carried out preliminary work on the site of the proposed new road tunnel at Stonehenge.

When you look up at the sky, the region of space around Earth may look as clear as a song, but there’s a heck of a lot going on out there that we can’t see.

Archaeologists have discovered dozens of terracotta figurines that are over 2,000 years old, including ones that depict gods, goddesses, men, women, cavalry and animals.

There’s a landmark project underway in Melbourne to find out whether psilocybin – the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms – can be used to improve end-of-life experiences. But many Australians have already turned to the underground because they’re convinced psychedelics to improve their mental health.

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I feel therefore I am … In this fascinating study, a neuropsychologist argues that the mystery of consciousness centres on emotions