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Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

Adults who report painful childhoods followed by the end of a romantic relationship have smaller hippocampuses.

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Learn about the abandoned Zapotec city of Guiengola in Oaxaca, Mexico, featuring a society based on communal work that would ...

Learn why the use of a tiny spoon likely suggests that Germanic communities used psychotropic drugs for battle.

Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.

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