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Hobbit-like Humans May Have Scavenged Komodo Dragons' Leftovers to Survive (slashdot.org)

2026-07-05 | by Posted | tags: floresiensis, form, homo

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Every Homo naledi we know of is female, and the implications are fascinating (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-25 | tags: homo naledi, rising star cave, amelogenin-x

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Genomic insights into the population dynamics and demise of Neanderthals (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-24 | by Lalueza-Fox | tags: neanderthals, natural sciences museum, homo sapiens

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Humans Were Using Fire Long Before Scientists Thought Possible, Study Says (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-18 | get Ancient Fire Starter Kit → | tags: homo erectus, south africa, fire

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Nanostructure of tooth enamel casts light on dietary shifts as humans evolved (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-03 | by Romero | get Microscopic Tooth Enamel Kit → | tags: homo sapiens, tooth enamel, mineral nanocrystals

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Protein in Homo erectus teeth suggests Denisovans gave us some of their DNA (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-13 | get Ancient DNA Extraction Kit → | tags: erectus, fragments, group

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Neanderthal brains measure up to ours—literally (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-28 | get Neanderthal Brain Model → | tags: neanderthal, homo sapiens, endocast

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The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal (technologyreview.com)

2026-04-14 | by Ben Crair | get Neanderthal DNA Test Kit → | tags: neanderthal, homo sapiens, population genetics

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Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-12 | by John Loeber | tags: idiomatic design, homogeneous interfaces, user experience

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Bring Back Idiomatic Design (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-12 | by John Loeber | get Idiomatic Design Book → | tags: windows 95, idiomatic design, homogeneous interfaces

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Prototype mod brings native 1080P output to the Super Nintendo (techspot.com)

2026-03-25 | get SNES HDMI Output Adapter → | tags: super nintendo, super switch hd, stanislav parhomovich

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AlphaFold database hits ‘next level’: the AI system now includes protein pairing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-17 | by Callaway | get Protein Structure Viewer → | tags: alphafold, google deepmind, protein complexes

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AlphaFold hits ‘next level’: the AI database now includes protein pairing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-17 | by Callaway | get Protein Structure Model Kit → | tags: alphafold, google deepmind, embl-ebi

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AlphaFold hits ‘next level’: the AI tool now includes protein pairing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-17 | by Callaway | get Protein Structure Model Kit → | tags: alphafold, google deepmind, protein complexes

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AI can ‘same-ify’ human expression — can some brains resist its pull? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-11 | by Ahart | get AI Expression Filter → | tags: large language models, usc, arxiv

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Intel Demos Chip to Compute With Encrypted Data (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-03-10 | by Samuel K. Moore | get Intel Software Guard Extensions Kit → | tags: intel, heracles, finfet

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A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-04 | by Asimov Press | get Genomics → | tags: homo sapiens, human genome project, nature

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The Om Programming Language (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-25 | get Scripting → | tags: om programming language, homoiconic notation, panmorphic typing

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"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-20 | get Fossil skulls → | tags: china, erectus, homo

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A pore-forming antiphage defence is activated by oligomeric phage proteins (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-04 | by Patel | get Oligomeric phage proteins → | tags: homologues, like phages, phages

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430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found (slashdot.org)

2026-01-28 | by Posted | get Wooden tools → | tags: early, homo, homo sapiens

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‘Fallout’ Just Dropped a Very Intriguing Bombshell (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-21 | get Game → | tags: adaptation, adaptation sophomore, amazon

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We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-07 | get Genome → | tags: hominin, homo, just

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Electrochemical defluorinative Matteson-type homologation (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-07 | by Cheung | get Homologane → | tags: boronate, boronate rearrangement, conditions

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Scientists Investigate What Killed Off Hobbit-Like Species (futurism.com)

2025-12-13 | by Sharon Adarlo | get Microscope → | tags: floresiensis, hobbits, homo

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Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Hannah Devlin | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: homo, human, humans

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Is the “million-year-old” skull from China a Denisovan or something else? (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get science reference book → | tags: denisovan, homo, longi

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Newly Discovered Fossils Reveal Unknown Humanlike Relative (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Natalia Mesa | get How to Win Friends book → | tags: australopithecus, fossils, homo

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Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: hominins, homo, island

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Homotopy Equivalences (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: equivalence, homotopy, loop