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The 1830s seamstress who solved Aristotle鈥檚 octopus mystery
Ladies weren鈥檛 supposed to do experiments out at sea. That didn鈥檛 stop Jeanne Villepreux-Power from solving an ancient mystery about聽the argonaut's shell
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Earth
The father of the Gaia hypothesis shares his greatest invention
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Secrets of Earth’s birth carried in lava jets from planet’s core
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A no-strike list may shield Yemen鈥檚 ancient treasures from war
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Emergency in Mali as looters are plundering ancient treasures
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Medieval wax seals are giving up fresh historical secrets
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Health
Scurvy: A tale of the sailors’ curse and a cure that got lost
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Whale tales: The real-life Moby Dicks
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Our Ice Age ancestors skinned cave lions to make roofs for huts
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Dozens of ancient shipwrecks spotted deep beneath the Black Sea
Decks of medieval ships have been revealed in unprecedented detail in exquisitely preserved wrecks, some found as deep as 1 kilometre
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Technology
The database that is rewriting history to predict the future
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Wistful thinking: Why we are wired to dwell on the past
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First Americans must have arrived by sea, not via Alaska
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The life and work of Alan Turing: Discovery weekend
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