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Anna Gibbs

Vikings brought animals to England as early as the year 873

Vikings brought horses and dogs to the British Isles from Scandinavia, a new study suggests. A chemical...

Mysterious marks on Ice Age cave art may have been a form of record keeping

As far back as roughly 25,000 years ago, Ice Age hunter-gatherers may have jotted down markings to...

A Caribbean island gets everyone involved in protecting beloved species

The coral reef, once bustling with more than 5,000 long-spined sea urchins, became a ghost town in...

These six foods may become more popular as the planet warms

No matter how you slice it, climate change will alter what we eat in the future. Today,...

This camera lens can focus up close and far away at the same time

Ben Franklin had nothing on trilobites. Roughly 400 million years before the founding father invented bifocals, the...

A new nuclear imaging prototype detects tumors’ faint glow

A type of light commonly observed in astrophysics experiments and nuclear reactors can help detect cancer. In...

This hieroglyph is the oldest known record of the Maya calendar

Buried within the Las Pinturas pyramid in San Bartolo, Guatemala, thousands of painted plaster mural fragments offer...

School mask mandates in the U.S. reduced coronavirus transmission

The verdict is, once again, in: Masking in schools is effective. During the COVID-19 pandemic’s delta variant...