Environment
Viking hordes dined on frozen Norwegian cod shipped to Germany
DNA from ancient cod bones shows Vikings freeze-dried Arctic cod for serving up on European menus 300 years earlier than we thought
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Space
Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning
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Technology
Time to bust the myth that Ada Lovelace was an overhyped aristo
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Humans
Bronze Age DNA helps unravel true fate of biblical Canaanites
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Humans
DNA of long-dead cows read from pages of Medieval books
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Life
See inside the 580-million-year-old creature no one understands
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Earth
The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth
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Life
Meticulous engravings that gave first glimpse of the invisible
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Health
Mary Somerville: Queen of 19th-century science
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Physics
Brecht鈥檚 Life of Galileo pumped up for the 21st century
A production by London鈥檚 Young Vic of Bertolt Brecht鈥檚 play about Galileo turns a sombre affair into a raucous rave 鈥� for better and for worse
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Technology
The US inventors who helped the RAF win the Battle of Britain
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Environment
Joseph Hooker: The travelling man who became Emperor of Botany
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Environment
Ancient humans: What we know and still don鈥檛 know about them
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Health
Did Goya get an autoimmune disease before his art went scary?
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