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The first pandemic? Scientists find 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric DNA

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered…

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Environment

Step up restoration of ancient woodland before it is lost, Forestry England urged | Trees and forests

Forestry England needs to urgently step up its ancient woodland restoration before the irreplaceable habitat is lost for ever, campaigners…

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Environment

Why are some of Britain’s ancient woodlands failing to regenerate? | Trees and forests

To the untrained eye, Monks Wood looks healthy and lush in the summer sun. Hundreds of butterflies dance on the…

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Health

Ancient DNA reveals leprosy hit the Americas long before colonization

Hansen’s Disease (leprosy) is thought to have originated in Eurasia: previous studies on Mycobacterium leprae, the dominant form of leprosy,…

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World

Fruit-eating mastodons? Ancient fossils confirm a long-lost ecological alliance

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of…

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Health

Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine moves : Shots

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (R) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Martin Makary at…

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Health

Ancient Native American agricultural site’s true extent revealed : NPR

Jonathan Alperstein, one of the researchers, excavates a portion of land on an ancient agricultural site in Michigan. Jesse Casana…

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World

New method provides the key to accessing proteins in ancient human remains

A new method developed by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, could soon unlock the vast…

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Environment

Humans moving to ancient cities sent bedbug numbers soaring, say scientists | Science

They survived the catastrophe that wiped out the dinosaurs, but bedbugs were in decline until the invention of the city,…

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Food & Drink

The Ancient African Grain, Fonio, Might Be the Future of Beer

In Person of Interest we talk to the people catching our eye right now about what they’re doing, eating, reading,…

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