Medieval Chronicles Led Scientists Straight to a Black Death Mass Grave in Germany
Around 12,000 people were buried in eleven large pits outside the city of Erfurt during…
What happens when a scholar spends decades immersed in the worlds of Viking warriors, Arthurian knights, and mythological monsters —…
Around 12,000 people were buried in eleven large pits outside the city of Erfurt during…
A $3 million prize and a milestone in medical history — that’s what two researchers…
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Something 1.85 kilometers wide slammed into what is now northeastern China roughly 46,000 to 53,000…
Nearly 3,000 archaeological traces hidden beneath ordinary farmland in northwestern Bohemia — and none of…
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A 700-year-old mummy discovered in Bolivia has just rewritten what scientists thought they knew about…
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Two thousand European eels died just 11 miles from Valencia, Spain — after completing one…
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A GPS ping appearing in the middle of a Swiss lake stopped researchers cold. The…
Polar bears — the iconic symbol of the Arctic and of climate change itself —…
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Fifty-five times over the course of roughly four Earth years, a microphone on NASA’s Perseverance…
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