Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway's Sverresborg castle to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text
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Les atomes
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Did grave robbers plunder battlefields? Bones went to fertilizer and sugar processing, book argues.
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The Space Shuttle misdirection (1991)
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The Greenwich meridian's forgotten rival
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The Republican Revolution and how the party switch actually happened
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Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests
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Ancient Amazonians created mysterious ‘dark earth’ on purpose
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The advent of sunglasses
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Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976 – between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised
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Oppenheimer: Vacated but not vindicated
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The insane engineering of the M1 Abrams
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Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why.
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How polyester bounced back
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The most powerful computers you've never heard of
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Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores? Seafarers may have come and gone from lush archipelago more than 1000 years ago
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Nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments revealed by laser mapping—many for the first time
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One Tenth of a Second
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Why did the Democratic and Republican parties switch platforms?
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The Polish doctors who used science to outwit the Nazis
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History of US political parties (part 1)
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Scottish nitroglycerin and one legged stools
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Dark hair was common among Vikings – research reveals they were a genetically diverse group and not purely Scandinavian
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Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. Why did they start voting differently from men in 1980?
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Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age
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A profound ignorance of nature - Commentary on Neil deGrasse Tyson’s most recent expression of historical illiteracy
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Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it
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How the Republican party went from Lincoln to Trump
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Was Sweden headed toward socialism in the 1970s?
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The birth of science in a darkened room: The father of modern optics could not have succeeded had he not feigned madness
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