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Dog's eye view of people walking dogs past some ancient architecture

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Ancient warriors killed and ate their dogs as rite of passage

4000 years ago in Eurasia, young warriors killed large numbers of dogs, ate their flesh, and chopped their skulls into small pieces as part of a bizarre initiation into war bands

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Viking hordes dined on frozen Norwegian cod shipped to Germany

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Viking hordes dined on frozen Norwegian cod shipped to Germany

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Space

Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning

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Ada Lovelace

Technology

Time to bust the myth that Ada Lovelace was an overhyped aristo

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Details of the conflict between the Hebrews and the Canaanites are sketchy

Humans

Bronze Age DNA helps unravel true fate of biblical Canaanites

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York Gospel

Humans

DNA of long-dead cows read from pages of Medieval books

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A virtual reconstruction of Rangea from CT scans

Life

See inside the 580-million-year-old creature no one understands

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The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth

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The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth

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Micrographia 1

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Meticulous engravings that gave first glimpse of the invisible

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Mary Somerville

Health

Mary Somerville: Queen of 19th-century science

Mary Somerville had vast knowledge and a social network to die for. That helped her write one of the most amazing and popular science books of the 19th century

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��𳦳��’s Life of Galileo pumped up for the 21st century

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Technology

The US inventors who helped the RAF win the Battle of Britain

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Life

Joseph Hooker: The travelling man who became Emperor of Botany

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Life

Ancient humans: What we know and still don’t know about them

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