Julia Biermann

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Ancient dogs domesticated twice ©iStock

Ancient dogs domesticated twice

The Silver Boa © R. Graham Reynolds

Silver Boa: the new treasure of the Bahamas

An artist's rendition of the galaxies Akira (right) and Tetsuo (left) © Kavli IPMU

Are ‘red geysers’ the solution to an old-galaxy mystery?

Summer Tanager © Geoffrey E. Hill

Seeing red: how birds’ yellow feathers turn into red ones

This is why you can’t sleep in a new bed © iStock

This is why you can’t sleep in a new bed

Fate of the dinosaurs sealed even before asteroid impact ©iStock

Fate of the dinosaurs sealed even before asteroid impact

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Future Technology

Flexible camera could change the way we take photos

Drawings on the full-size reproduction of Chauvet cave (© Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images)

Everyday science

First cave art 10,000 years older than thought

Skulls of Neanderthals and homo sapiens line The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins, Washington, DC © Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Human diseases from Africa could have wiped out Neanderthals

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Everyday science

This week in science history: Apollo 13, Rosalind Franklin and England’s ‘green heart’

Sentinel-3A’s first infrared picture is a masterpiece © ESA

Sentinel-3A’s first infrared picture is a masterpiece

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Two hearts beating in one baboon

Supermassive black hole discovered in the unlikeliest of places © iStock

Supermassive black hole discovered in the unlikeliest of places

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Bilingual babies get early brain boost

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Mummy DNA reveals that early Americans were wiped out by Europeans