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Waiting for SCOTUS: pro-choice activists outside the US Supreme Court on November 1. Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

November 25, 2021

US abortion bans back before the Supreme Court – but globally more countries are liberalising access than restricting it. Podcast

Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation

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Lightning storm over Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr Carina Schumann, Johannesburg Lightning Research Lab, University of the Witwatersrand.

November 3, 2021

Forensic science is unlocking the mysteries of fatal lightning strikes

Patrick Randolph-Quinney, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Nicholas Bacci, University of the Witwatersrand, and Tanya Nadine Augustine, University of the Witwatersrand

This tool can identify cause of death by fatal lightning strike in skeletonised remains.

Reconstruction of the bite wound affecting the shoulder of our herbivorous dinosaur. Zongda Zhang/Lida Xing

March 22, 2018

The dinosaur that got away: how we diagnosed a 200‑million‑year‑old infected predator bite

Patrick Randolph-Quinney, University of Lancashire

New research uses pathology in dinosaur bones to look at predator-prey interactions in the fossil record.

By about 320,000 years ago, humans in Kenya began using color pigments and manufacturing more sophisticated tools. Human Origins Program, Smithsonian

March 15, 2018

The revolution that wasn’t: African tools push back the origins of human technological innovation

Patrick Randolph-Quinney, University of Lancashire and Anthony Sinclair, University of Liverpool

Scientists have discovered sophisticated tools in Kenya that are much older than expected.

Middle Palaeolithic artefacts emerged during excavation at Attirampakkam. Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, India

January 31, 2018

Indian stone tools could dramatically push back date when modern humans first left Africa

Patrick Randolph-Quinney, University of Lancashire

Modern humans could have left Africa shortly after evolving, making it to India in tens of thousands of years.

Rock art. Zach Snavely/Shutterstock

January 8, 2017

How forensic science can unlock the mysteries of human evolution

Patrick Randolph-Quinney, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Anthony Sinclair, University of Liverpool, and Emma Nelson, University of Liverpool

New ways of using forensic science in anthropology have been developed to advance our understanding of the past.

Third-year archaeology student Dominic Coe replicates a painting of rhino based on the original image in France’s Grotte Chauvet. Supplied

January 4, 2017

Why we built an artificial cave to teach our students about ancient art

Anthony Sinclair, University of Liverpool; Emma Nelson, University of Liverpool; Jason Hall, University of Liverpool, and Patrick Randolph-Quinney, University of Lancashire

In an ideal world, students might visit original cave sites to see ancient paintings in their natural setting. This isn’t possible, so the idea of an artificial cave set-up at a university was born.

The earliest hominin cancer. Patrick Randolph-Quinney (University of Central Lancashire/University of the Witwatersrand)

September 12, 2016

Fossil evidence reveals that cancer in humans goes back 1.7 million years

Patrick Randolph-Quinney, University of Lancashire and Edward John Odes, University of the Witwatersrand

Cancer is not the modern disease many believe it to be. New fossil evidence from two South African caves suggests that its origins lie deep in prehistory.

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