Our hopes of a real-life Jurassic Park have been dashed after palaeogeneticists discover the half-life of DNA, but there's a silver lining.

It's long been debated exactly when early man started covering up his shame with clothes, a move which allowed him to start migrating to much colder climates like.

It's long been debated how much contact, intermingling and just plain cave-sex early humans and Neanderthals had with each other.

If you ever had aspirations of robbing a McDonald's in Europe and are squeemish about bioengineering, you might want to think again, as they've started equipping them with a new security system that douses would-be robbers with a dose of "artificial DNA.

How do we show how cool this is.

Science has given us many wonderful things: Jet aircraft, fast food, atomic power, robotic limbs, and internet pornography.

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OK, so the image of the evil Terminator spiders is just a little misleading, but the robots in this article don't look quite as cool.

Pictured: two views of an amazing breakthrough.