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Tree rings reveal plague hit medieval Europe’s construction industry

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Tree rings reveal plague hit medieval Europe’s construction industry

Dating timber used to build European houses between AD 1250 and 1699 reveals that building activity fell during the Black Death and the Thirty Years’ War

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Artificial intelligence is about to revolutionise warfare. Be afraid

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skeletons

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Iran's Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia

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Planet of the Apes

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Don't miss: Apes get ideas, hole becomes art, games lose boundaries

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A new data-driven idea of warfare doesn't quite add up

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A new data-driven idea of warfare doesn't quite add up

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Landmine muncher automatically sifts soil and explodes them

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Landmine muncher automatically sifts soil and explodes them

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Four ways dolphins are amazing – and one way they’re not

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Four ways dolphins are amazing – and one way they’re not

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leaping dolphin

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Inside the secret military programme that uses dolphins as weapons

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Colombia’s peace deal unwittingly unleashed hell on the Amazon

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Colombia’s peace deal unwittingly unleashed hell on the Amazon

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Bombhead and Bombs Away: when remembering is an art

Powerful reminders of our nuclear and military past echo in an uncertain present, with a show in Vancouver and new book pulling no punches

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Ancient Swedish massacre hints at chaos after the fall of Rome

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Health

War veteran gets world's first penis and scrotum transplant

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US may respond after chemical weapons attack in Syria

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US wants first drones that can kill people truly independently

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