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In spring 1495, the Italian campaign of Charles VIII of France was interrupted by an intense outbreak of an apparently unknown illness—a disease of high mortality that quickly engulfed the whole of Europe and left its survivors ...
Archaeologists have analyzed more than 3,000 human bones and bone fragments from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse Warren, England, concluding that the people were massacred, butchered, and likely partly consumed ...
Journeying back to the Jurassic era, scientists used cutting-edge tech to uncover the secrets about Orthosuchus stormbergi, a small, early crocodile ancestor. Their results are published in the Journal of Anatomy.
An international study shows how chemical fingerprints left by "underappreciated" aquatic organisms could help scientists monitor global environmental change.
A mystery beginning in the South Atlantic and ending in South Kensington has finally been solved. The century-long story of two blue whale vertebrae can now be told for the first time, revealing their part in helping to ban ...
A bone-dry October is pushing nearly half of the United States into a flash drought, leading to fires in the Midwest and hindering shipping on the Mississippi River.
Each year, about 2.2 million bone-grafting procedures are performed worldwide, the gold standard of care being autografting, which uses the patient's own bone for tooth implantation and to repair and reconstruct parts of ...
A research group discovered that gelatins from the antlers, skin, and bones of sika deer (Cervus Nippon) exhibit antioxidant activity.
Dartmouth researchers have a project aboard the Polaris Dawn mission they hope will help address two major health risks of space flight—the breakdown of astronauts' bones in zero-gravity conditions and the resulting danger ...
Since the catastrophic pandemics of the Middle Ages, one disease has almost proverbially symbolized contagion and death: the plague. It is now known that the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis has been present in Central and ...
