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A Goya etching published in 1799

Health

Did Goya get an autoimmune disease before his art went scary?

Known as the father of modern art, Goya was struck by a mysterious illness in the 1790s. Now a doctor has diagnosed this as the rare condition Susac’s syndrome

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Life

The 1830s seamstress who solved Aristotle’s octopus mystery

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Earth

The father of the Gaia hypothesis shares his greatest invention

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Earth

Secrets of Earth's birth carried in lava jets from planet's core

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An armed man and a vehicle going through sandy ruins

Humans

A no-strike list may shield Yemen’s ancient treasures from war

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Ancient manuscripts are in danger in Mali

Humans

Emergency in Mali as looters are plundering ancient treasures

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Technology

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

Culture

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Earth

Whale tales: The real-life Moby Dicks

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A woman bent over studying something under a microscope on the floor of a cave

Humans

Our Ice Age ancestors skinned cave lions to make roofs for huts

Cave lion bones found near prehistoric huts in the La Garma cave in Spain show evidence of being skinned for fur, which the early humans seem to have used as roofs

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Technology

Dozens of ancient shipwrecks spotted deep beneath the Black Sea

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Technology

The database that is rewriting history to predict the future

Features

Humans

Wistful thinking: Why we are wired to dwell on the past

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Earth

First Americans must have arrived by sea, not via Alaska

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