archaeology

How a surge in ancient plagues 5000 years ago shaped humanity

How a surge in ancient plagues 5000 years ago shaped humanity

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Disease historians have a problem. While examining samples of ancient human DNA, geneticists have come across genes belonging to the ...

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library

kakameo

Deep within a particle accelerator, theoretical physicist Giorgio Angelotti is hard at work. He sets a black cylinder on a ...