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Bamboo forest

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11th-century polymath was the first to recognise past climate change

After discovering fossilised bamboo in the 11th century, Shen Kuo deduced that the climate in northern China had been different in the ancient past

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The analysis of a grave at Issendorf cemetery in Germany

Humans

DNA records reveal mass migration from Europe into Anglo-Saxon Britain

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jamie Wiseman/Daily Mail/Shutterstock (2654098a) Soldiers Turned Archaeologists Pictured At Work On The Barrow Clump Anglo-saxon And Bronze Age Burial Site On Salisbury Plains One Of The Most Important Discoveries Was The Find Of A Skeleton Of An Anglo-saxon Male Found With His Spear And His Almost Completely Preserved Bronze And Wooden Cup See Ian Drury Story 11 7 12 Soldiers Turned Archaeologists Pictured At Work On The Barrow Clump Anglo-saxon And Bronze Age Burial Site On Salisbury Plains. One Of The Most Important Discoveries Was The Find Of A Skeleton Of An Anglo-saxon Male Found With His Spear And His Almos

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Buried review: Did the Anglo-Saxons really invade Britain?

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A farmer?s wife breastfeeds her baby while two other women give water to a child from a pitcher. From The Five Senses Series by Fredrick Bloemaert, after Abraham Bloemaert, 1632-1670. CREDIT: F. Bloemaert/A. Bloemaert/N. Visscherimage/Rijks Museum/Public Domain

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Women in a 19th-century Dutch farming village didn't breastfeed

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The FRAMe Project functional model in comparison to the Fragment A visual and the AMRP X-Ray images. The central large gear-b1 with the four arms is visible. The Fragments of the Mechanism are exhibited in National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Greece.

Space

Ancient computer may have had its clock set to 23 December 178 BC

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We must recognise science’s unsung global pioneers to alter its future

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We must recognise science’s unsung global pioneers to alter its future

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letter from Queen Marie-Antoinette to Count de Fersen

Humans

Marie Antoinette's censored love letters have been read using X-rays

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Henry David Thoreau 12 July 1817 - 6 May 1862

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Henry David Thoreau

Portrait of the German mathematician Amalie Emmy Noether (1882-1935), c.1910

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Emmy Noether

Katherine Johnson

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Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson was a NASA mathematician famous for her brilliant calculations, which helped the US land astronauts on the moon during the space race.

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C. V. Raman

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George Washington Carver

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Ada Lovelace

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Alice Ball