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Genomes recovered from bone are settling arguments archaeology could not settle, and starting several new ones. An ong…

Jupiter's moon Europa probably holds more liquid water than every ocean on Earth combined, beneath a shell of ice. A s…

Movable type existed in Asia centuries earlier. What Gutenberg assembled in Mainz was a production system, and the con…

The most famous library in history did not burn down in a single night. What happened to it is slower, less dramatic, …

In 2022 a spacecraft hit a small asteroid hard enough to change its orbit. It was a test, it worked better than predic…

The programme that took human beings to another world in under a decade, what it actually required, and why nobody wen…

NASA's programme to put crews back on the lunar surface, this time near the south pole and this time to stay. Dates ar…

Hundreds of scrolls carbonised by Vesuvius have been unreadable for two centuries. Scanning and machine learning have …

Rock cores are already sealed and waiting in Jezero Crater. Getting them to a laboratory on Earth requires a launch fr…

How the interconnected trade routes known as the Silk Road facilitated not just the exchange of goods but the transmis…