Hawkins's computer was too literal. But his instinct — that Stonehenge handled information — survives every test the sixty years since have thrown at it. An investigation through stone provenance, isotopes, ancient DNA and landscape archaeology, ending with a named, testable hypothesis: the Gathering Engine.
News in brief — 10 October 2025
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has officially declared the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura) extinct,...
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A cautionary tale for our times, this essay examines the environmental catastrophe of the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-largest lake, which has lost...
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Climate change is forcing a global redistribution of marine life, yet tracking the vanguard of this migration is challenging with traditional visual surveys that...
Dame Jane Morris Goodall, formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, the English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist has passed away. Considered the world's foremost expert on...