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Neolithic burial from Çatalhöyük, Turkey, is represented by a headless young adult female with a fetal skeleton (arrow). Skull removal was a burial custom practiced in number of instances at this locality © Image courtesy of the Çatalhöyük Research Project/Jason Quinlan.

First proto-urban communities experienced overcrowding, infection and violence

Blood-pressure drug has potential to help Alzheimer’s © American Heart Association

Blood-pressure drug has potential to help Alzheimer’s

Seals use thought to prepare body for diving (A juvenile harbour seal © Monica Arso Civil, Sea Mammal Research Unit)

Seals use thought to prepare body for diving

Controlling brainwaves could help improve memory in Alzheimer’s patients © Getty Images

Controlling brainwaves could help improve memory in Alzheimer’s patients

Night owls can change their body clocks in just three weeks © Getty Images

Night owls can change their body clocks in just three weeks

AI created to translate babies’ cries © Getty Images

AI created to translate babies’ cries

Genetically engineered mushrooms used to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes © Getty Images

Genetically engineered mushrooms used to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes

3D printed lung-mimicking ‘air sac’ brings functioning bioprinted organs a step closer © Jordan Miller/Rice University

3D printed lung-mimicking ‘air sac’ brings functioning bioprinted organs a step closer

Music helps to build the brains of premature babies © Stéphane Sizonenko - UNIGE HUG

Music helps to build the brains of premature babies

Chugging down energy drinks can lead to potentially life-threatening changes in heartbeat © Getty Images

Chugging down energy drinks can lead to potentially life-threatening changes in heartbeat

The formation of the Moon brought water to Earth © Getty Images

The formation of the Moon brought water to Earth

Beer cruse from Tel Tzafit:Gath archaeological digs, from which Philistine beer was produced. © Yaniv Berman:Israel Antiquities Authority.

Unbeerlievable! Ancient Egyptian ale recreated from 5,000-year-old yeast

Compound found in human breast milk has the potential to fight cancer © Getty Images

Compound found in human breast milk has the potential to fight cancer

An end to AIDS is in sight © Getty Images

An end to AIDS is in sight