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Medieval dental plaque suggests women played important role as scribes

A rare blue pigment found in a medieval woman's teeth adds to the idea that many scribes at the time were women

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Life

From the archives: When Soviet tanks crushed Czech science

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Technology

Answers: What were these six bamboozling inventions designed to do?

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Quiz: What were these six bamboozling inventions designed to do?

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Humans

Unearthed! The missing Native American city on the Great Plains

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They Shall Not Grow Old review: Restored footage brings war to life

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They Shall Not Grow Old review: Restored footage brings war to life

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Life

The Wider Earth review – Darwin's Beagle days make a gripping play

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Space

Old Scientist: 1968 was the surprising year of space race gloom

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Life

Edge of Memory: Distrusting oral tradition may make us more ignorant

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James Croll

Earth

How a janitor wowed Darwin by solving the ice age mystery

Self-educated ice sage James Croll cracked the conundrum of why Earth periodically freezes over. He was feted in his time, so why did the world forget him?

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Yuval Noah Harari: Why the reluctant guru is upsetting scientists

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Earth

Did ancient Mayan civilisation collapse because of a sudden drought?

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Humans

Mystery of Welsh bodies buried at Stonehenge as first stones arrived

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Earth

Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims

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