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From toy shop shelves to the jungles of Jurassic Park, most people have probably seen plenty of depictions of dinosaurs. And we’ve gotten pretty good at portraying them accurately thanks to the hard work of palaeontologists. But one part of the dino body hasn’t received as much attention – the bottom.
Now one well preserved specimen has helped reveal not only the anatomy of the dinosaur derriere, but also exposed the fact these prehistoric creatures may have flashed their rears at each other as a way of communicating.
From the primeval past to the not-so-distant, it’s been 100 years since the concept of the robot was first introduced to audiences in a Czech playhouse. It terrified at the time, but it’s slightly odd that we’re still petrified of robots for precisely the same reasons today.
And, for those who’ve long harboured suspicions that cheese is magic, we’ve charted a spellbinding history of cheese divination (“tyromancy”, we’ll have you know) for you to sink your teeth into.
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Alex King
Commissioning Editor, Science + Technology
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Bob Nicholls Paleocreations
Jakob Vinther, University of Bristol; Diane A. Kelly, University of Massachusetts Amherst
A reconstruction of a dinosaur's back passage reveals it may have been used for visual communication.
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Michael Szollosy, University of Sheffield
The 1921 play R.U.R. introduced the world to the word ‘robots’. Its plot is remarkably similar to robot stories told today.
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Cheese and witches: a potent combination.
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Tabitha Stanmore, University of Bristol
For hundreds of years, magicians believed cheese could help them foretell the future or identify a criminal.
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Environment + Energy
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Grant Wilson, University of Birmingham; Joseph Day, University of Birmingham; Noah Godfrey, University of Birmingham
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Christopher Pittard, University of Portsmouth
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Politics + Society
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Siobhán Kelly, University of Salford
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Liam Kennedy, University College Dublin
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Daire Carroll, University of Warwick; Jessica Harvey-Carroll, University of St Andrews
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