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Did Victorians Deal with More Extreme Weather than Brits Today?
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The Bizarre History of the Baby Cage
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Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?
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How Humans Are Changing Evolution
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History’s Deadliest Colors
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The Forgotten Medieval Habit of ‘Two Sleeps’
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Was Life Better in Hunter-Gatherer Times?
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Vikings Were in the Americas Exactly 1,000 Years Ago
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How Reykjavik’s Sheet-Metal Homes Beat the Icelandic Winter
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Creatures of the Dawn: How Radioactivity Unlocked Deep Time
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Humans Reached the Americas at Least 7,000 Years Earlier than Previously Thought
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How Aircraft Conquered Antarctica
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New Research Shows Roman Men and Women Had Different Diets
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Hycean Worlds: New Class of Exoplanets That May Support Alien Life
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A Shifting Climate Gave Humans Many Opportunities to Leave Africa
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An Immense Mystery Older than Stonehenge
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Ancient Iranian Objects Reveal Writing’s Roots
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Scientists Use Tusk to Track Movements of 17,000-Year-Old Mammoth
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The Maya’s Ingenious Secret to Survival
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Roman Fast Food Restaurant Unearthed at Pompeii Will Open to the Public this Summer
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Ancient Clay Tablet Bears the Oldest Known Example of Applied Geometry
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The Strange 19th-Century Sport That Was Cooler Than Football
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‘Jurassic Pompeii’ Yields Thousands of High-Quality Fossils
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Leo Hendrik Baekeland: The Man Who Invented Plastic