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A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

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A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words

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91av recommends the engaging Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal

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El Niño was linked to famines in Europe in the early modern period

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The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished

Space

The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished

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Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

Space

Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

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Aurora Borealis dancing over Tromso Urban Skyline. Tromso Panorama and winter night landscape with Northern Lights (Aurora Polaris) on a cold night, with starry sky, polar lights and snowcapped mountains on Kvaloya Island in the background. Cityscape with Brightly Street Light of the Arctic Capital, Northern Norway

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The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras

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A woman looking at a species exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Life

A new book reveals the deep flaws in our natural history museums

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Excavation in Sudan shows Roman Empire wasn’t as mighty as it claimed

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Carlo Rovelli on what we get wrong about the origins of quantum theory

Physics

Carlo Rovelli on what we get wrong about the origins of quantum theory

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A timeline of the most important events in quantum mechanics

Physics

A timeline of the most important events in quantum mechanics

Explore the key moments in the history of quantum theory, from the early ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg to the discovery of phenomena like superposition and entanglement – and today’s quantum computers

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How mudlarks are uncovering thousands of years of London's history

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Ancient rocks boost case for mini ice age linked to fall of Rome

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The physicist on a mission to spark a quantum industrial revolution

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Lead pollution across the Roman Empire would have caused IQ deficits

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