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Ancient people of Easter Island made return trips to South America

DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was no population crash before the arrival of Europeans

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Health

How diseases like smallpox survived long ocean voyages

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Humans

Nomads thrived in Greece after the collapse of the Roman Empire

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Life

Red squirrels were hosts for leprosy in medieval England

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Humans

Medieval horses buried in London had far-flung origins

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2NGGYHG Polish-born American biochemist Dr. Casimir Funk, who coined the term vitamin, is shown at work in his new research laboratory on W. 64th Street in New York City on Jan. 12, 1953. (AP Photo)

Chemistry

Casimir Funk: The scientist who gave us the word 'vitamin'

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Humans

Ancient Herculaneum scroll piece revealed by AI – here's what it says

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Environment

Plagues that shook the Roman Empire linked to cold, dry periods

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Uniquely depicted in the process of shedding its winter coat, the full-scale model of a wooly mammoth???one of the most iconic extinct elephant relatives???was made onsite by the Museum???s Exhibition team with input from leading paleomammalogists. Alvaro Keding/?? AMNH

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New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ recommends: The Secret World of Elephants in New York

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2R0BH12 The Fra Mauro map, ca 1450 by the Venetian cartographer Fra Mauro

Earth

The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a science

Some 550 years ago, a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro set out to create a world map. Rather than myth and religion, it was based on solid evidence for the first time

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Life

Great Wall of China protected from erosion by coat of lichen and moss

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Humans

Student uses AI to decipher word in ancient scroll from Herculaneum

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Technology

How scientists are cracking historical codes to reveal lost secrets

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Physics

A brief history of the standard model, our theory of almost everything

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