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A skull fragment showing taruma

Humans

Medieval London was the most violent place in England

A look at skulls from English cemeteries shows that young lower-class males in Medieval London enforced the rule of law with blows to the head

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

Humans

Ancient warriors killed and ate their dogs as rite of passage

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Viking hordes dined on frozen Norwegian cod shipped to Germany

Life

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

Features

Ada Lovelace

Technology

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

Comment

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

News

A virtual reconstruction of Rangea from CT scans

Life

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

News

The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth

Earth

The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth

Culture

Micrographia 1

Life

Meticulous engravings that gave first glimpse of the invisible

In 1665, Robert Hooke's Micrographia brought micrscopic observations of objects smaller than a grain of sand out of the laboratory and into the wider world

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Health

Mary Somerville: Queen of 19th-century science

Features

Space

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

Culture

Technology

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

Features

Life

Joseph Hooker: The travelling man who became Emperor of Botany

Culture

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