How a US civil war shipwreck became a template for marine conservation
14 December 2022
The USS Monitor, an iconic piece of military history, sank 160 years ago. Now a marine sanctuary, the wreck has become an unlikely testbed for ocean conservation
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Industrial Revolution may have been kick-started by drought
25 October 2022
The 19th century transition to coal in Britain was thought to be driven by a lack of sites for water wheels but there were plenty of spots left – instead, drought may have made water flow less consistent and reliable than coal
Buried review: Did the Anglo-Saxons really invade Britain?
25 May 2022
Who were the Anglo-Saxons? Biological anthropologist Alice Roberts's informed, sophisticated new take digs deep to re-examine their true origins
The alphabet may have been invented 500 years earlier than we thought
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Many researchers think the alphabet emerged in Egypt about 3800 years ago – but possible examples of alphabetic writing from a 4300-year-old site in Syria challenge that idea
Egyptian pyramids really were aligned with the compass points
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Many ancient monuments are claimed to be aligned to celestial phenomena, but we now have the first statistical evidence this is the case for the Egyptian pyramids
The 'ancestral diet' doesn't make sense and relies on lazy stereotypes
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Eating like your ancestors did 5000 years ago is a fad on the rise. James Wong wonders if following the "ancestral diet" means he should eat pangolins or live a life of abject poverty
Sixty years ago the world’s largest particle accelerator switched on
12 February 2020
When CERN’s Proton Synchrotron switched on 60 years ago it ushered in a new era for particle physics
Who invented the alphabet? The untold story of a linguistic revolution
5 February 2020
One of civilisation’s most revolutionary inventions was long thought to be the brainchild of ancient Egyptian scribes. But its true creators may have been far less glamorous
The life of Veronique Le Guen, record-breaking caver
29 January 2020
Veronique Le Guen died in 1990, just two years after she had set a world record for the most time spent alone in an underground cavern
The epic ocean journey that took Stone Age people to Australia
22 January 2020
Some 65,000 years ago, early humans washed up on the lost continent of Sahul, which contained Australia. Now clues hint it was no accident but rather the first great maritime expedition
