Humans
Viking longships brought rape, pillage and cod
The Viking trade in freeze-dried cod started a culinary revolution, ancient fish bones reveal
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The ‘Einstein’ of the ancient Greeks
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Technology
Fifty years of DARPA: Hits, misses and ones to watch
News
Heroes for hard times
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Technology
Theatrophone 鈥� the 19th-century iPod
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Space
Film review: In the Shadow of the Moon
Books & Arts
Health
The mutual poisoning society
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Health
How the world let malaria off the hook
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Life
Can’t bite, cant fight
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Earth
The ice age that never was
From the 1940s to the mid-1970s, the planet seemed to be in the grip of a global cooling - so what can we learn from that largely forgotten episode?
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Technology
Histories: The spinning-top railway
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Health
Histories: The human centrifuge
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Health
Dr Diet’s recipe for health
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Life
Revival of the fittest
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