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In 16th-century England, death by plague, depicted in the wood carving above, might have been an easy way to go compared to the accidents that could befall a person in everyday life.

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Here Are Some of the Weird Ways You Could Die in Tudor England

Pole vaulting and bacon are among the odd causes of death discovered by historians

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Archivists Uncover an Unfinished Memoir By Orson Welles

Fragments of “Confessions of a One-Man Band” discovered in a newly-acquired trove of documents

Dog flu spreads nose to nose. The virus can be eliminated by cleaning areas touched by potentially infected dogs.

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A New Strain of Canine Flu Is on the Rise

Possible cases of dog flu pop up in 13 states

A female Saiga antelope grazing in Russia’s Black Earth Nature Reserve

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Half of the World’s Saiga Antelopes Are Dead From a Mysterious Disease

The already endangered antelope started dying in the thousands this month

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Scientists Just Mummified a Human Leg to Test Ancient Egyptian Techniques

It took 208 days for Swiss scientists to mummify a fresh leg using natron

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Is the Curiosity Rover Behind Weird Methane Readings on Mars?

The debate over methane is causing a stink among scientists

Like many ancient statues, this Medusa is missing a nose

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A Museum Keeps The Fake Noses That Once Replaced Those Missing on Ancient Sculptures

The exhibit is a testament to art restoration’s changing values

A man cools off using a water pipe at a train station in Allahabad, India.

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A Heat Wave Has Killed Over 1,100 People in India

Scorching temperatures are having a disproportionate affect on the poor

The Egtved girl was a high-born female from the Bronze Age. In her grave in Denmark, she wears a wool dress. Wool textiles and a bronze belt plate that resembles the sun surround her remains.

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What Was Life Like for a Girl in the Bronze Age?

Analysis of a 3,400-year-old burial traces the life story of a Bronze Age female

Detail of "Apollo at the Forge of Vulcan" by Velázquez

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3D Copies of Art Let the Blind Experience Classic Works in New Ways

In this museum, touching the paintings is allowed

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Take a Drone Tour of Ancient History

Drones offer a soaring perspective of ancient sites

The original Pac-Man was kind of a feminist.

Pac-Man Turns 35 This Month

The now-iconic game was originally released by Namco in 1980

A satellite photo of the 2011-12 eruption that created Sholan island in the Red Sea.

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Watch a Volcanic Island Form in the Red Sea

Magma troughs and earthquake swarms gave rise to two new islands near Yemen

A glacier in Svaldbard

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As Glaciers Retreat, They Give up the Bodies and Artifacts They Swallowed

Around the world global warming is exposing bodies lost in glaciers

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This Surfboard Maps Waves and Gathers Ocean Data for Researchers

Sensors would make surfers into citizen scientists

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A Volcano In the Galapagos Islands Is Threatening Precious Species

Pink iguanas, marine life could be harmed by lava flows on Isabela Island

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Watch How an Expert Spots Fraudulent Wine

Distinctive labels and corks mark the truly valuable vintages

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Today’s Google Doodle Honors Sally Ride

Five animations show the first American woman astronaut's sense of fun

Unearthed at the Cova Negra site in Spain, skull fragments from a Neanderthal child have telltale punctures in the right parietal region.

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Ancient Carnivores Had a Taste for Neanderthal Meat

Researchers link bite marks on a Neanderthal skull to the fangs of an ancient big cat

Researchers collected this mixture of plankton – small zooplanktonic animals, larvae and single cell protists – in the Pacific Ocean with a 0.1 mm mesh net.

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How Will Climate Change Impact Plankton?

A global plankton survey aims to help us understand how the tiny organisms that live at the ocean surface will fare in a warming world

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