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 Communities living in Colombia thousands of years ago achieved an engineering wonder of the world based on cooperation among family groups without top-down government, a new study shows. Archaeologists argue that policymakers in Colombia should now adopt a similar strategy to solve the country’s current water management crisis.

 Around 11,000 years ago, Neolithic communities across southwest Asia began producing their own food by bringing wild cereals, legumes and fruit-bearing plants under cultivation. Over the following millennia, these practices transformed hunter-gatherer lifeways and eventually gave rise to farming societies in which domesticated cereal crops were central to subsistence, storag...

Lost letter from the Pope casts 1066 as a holy war against ‘followers of Satan

A lost letter from the Pope could rewrite the story of 1066 – according to research from the University of East Anglia.

Study suggests sugars played a bigger role in brain evolution than previously thought

Fruit, honey and other naturally sweet foods may have helped fuel the evolution of the human brain, according to new research from the University of Sydney and the Uni...