Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text
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Stone Age boy in Sweden was buried in deerskin and a woodpecker headdress, archaeologists discover
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'Exceptionally rare' Roman lead blocks found on farmland in Wales
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Breakthrough antibody discovery targets Epstein-Barr virus, which infects 95% of the world’s population
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17th century Swedish Navy shipwreck buried underwater in central Stockholm for 400 years has suddenly become visible due to unusually low Baltic Sea levels
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Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear
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Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating stories of love, loss and epic battles
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Maritime archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark have announced the discovery of what they describe as the world’s largest cog
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Scientists find foreign trees and one fingerprint on iron age warship from Scandinavia
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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
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Epstein-Barr virus appears to be trigger of lupus disease
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
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Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification”
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Swedish fisherman digging for worms stumbles upon cache of silver coins, beads, rings and pendants dating to the 12th century
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Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects
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‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction
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Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances
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Scientists unlock secret to Venus flytrap’s hair-trigger response
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James Webb Space Telescope detects possible atmosphere around Earth-like exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e, forty light years away from Earth
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Denmark's National Museum unveils gaming piece which is believed to be the first portrait of a Viking – figurine depicts man with imperial moustache, braided beard and a neatly-groomed hairstyle
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Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark
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Two geologists who found a meteorite that had fallen onto a plot of land outside Enköping are entitled to the stone, the Swedish Supreme Court rules
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Scientists uncover 75,000-year-old Arctic animal remains in Norwegian cave
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At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a math mystery
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Mexico's butterfly warriors: Day of the Dead?
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The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried in farm fields. Their finds are revealing the country's past in extraordinary detail.
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‘Dragon prince’ dinosaur discovery 'rewrites' T.rex family tree
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10th-century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in northern Denmark
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First intact Roman pot found in Ireland reveals ancient trade relations
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In 1903, a Norwegian farmer discovered an ornate piece of wood sticking out of the mud – one year later, an almost totally intact Viking ship burial had been uncovered
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Mayan site with pyramid and canal system discovered in Guatemala
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Jerry Lewis' lost 1972 comedy film on Nazism discovered in Sweden
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Ancient Roman wooden water pipe made from hollow tree trunks unearthed beneath a street in Belgium
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Extremely metal "bone collector" caterpillar cloaks itself in the shattered exoskeletons of its vanquished foes
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A college student accidentally broke the laws of thermodynamics while attempting to mix fluids
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Roman-era battlefield mass grave discovered under Vienna football pitch
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Danish archaeological discovery has raised questions about the origins of the iconic Sutton Hoo helmet, thought for decades to have links to Sweden
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Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark – archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circle
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Thutmose II: First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's
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Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement
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Archaeologists discover stash of 1,500-year-old weapons – includes the only known Roman helmet ever found in Denmark
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Hidden pyramid structure discovered near Caral, Peru
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World’s oldest 3D map discovered
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Archaeological dig at Notre-Dame unearths 2,000 years of history
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Lost Silk Road cities were just discovered using new tech - high altitude communities challenge previous consensus about life in Central Asia
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Mathematicians discover a new kind of shape that’s all over nature (3D tessellating forms)
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A ‘yoga pill’ to end anxiety? Scientists find a brain circuit that instantly deflates stress.
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A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform
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Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle
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Hear a Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years
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