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Over the past week, the media have been reporting on a new discovery — that 450,000 years ago, Neanderthals were generating fire, far earlier than previously known.

As this is the final Skywatch column for the year, it feels like the right moment to look back rather than up — though, of course, I’ve done plenty of both.

The monument is not the city’s only reminder of William Cargill, Sean Brosnahan writes.

Out in Middlemarch last week, under what might generously be called a luminous sky — the full moon hanging over the Strath Taieri like an over-keen floodlight — I turned my telescope toward Orion.

Hoverflies may replace honeybees as crop pollinators, as bees decline.

After reshaping how we think, learn and socialise, the next wave of AI is poised to reach far deeper — into our desires, our relationships and our sense of self

Occasionally, astronomy presents you with a piece of technology that changes your life.