Archaeologist Neil Price delves into the lives and deaths of Viking Age people, including warriors, traders, thralls, sorcerers and children.
A recent satellite photo shows a patchwork of tens of thousands of size-restricted farms tightly crammed into Taiwan's Yunlin County, which grows a majority of the island's food.
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A new mathematical formula tracks an AI's internal "compass needle" to flag undesirable outputs before they happen.
Archaeologists excavating a medieval African kingdom have discovered pottery from eastern China, revealing connections across continents.
An early bird with many dinosaur-like features discovered in China seems to have been a fast-running, land-based carnivore with killer claws.
Analysis of tiny zircon crystals buried within the 10-mile-wide Ames crater in northwest Oklahoma suggests that the submerged structure dates back to 370 million years ago, during the Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction event.
A human sacrifice was found next to an elite warrior's 2,000-year-old burial in Russia.
Hacking incidents by AI agents are creating a legal minefield. The developers and deployers of rogue bots could be held liable.
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In this excerpt from "Every Last Fish," author Rose George examines the deep-rooted problems of the regulations surrounding fish meal — a product that's supposed to come from the discarded scraps of dead fish, but in reality removes huge quantities of food from people in West Africa who need it.
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Archaeologists excavating a medieval African kingdom have discovered pottery from eastern China, revealing connections across continents.
A human sacrifice was found next to an elite warrior's 2,000-year-old burial in Russia.
Archaeologist Neil Price delves into the lives and deaths of Viking Age people, including warriors, traders, thralls, sorcerers and children.
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A 1,200-year-old burial in Latvia holds the remains of a father, son and four others who may have been victims of a Viking raid.
Analysis of tiny zircon crystals buried within the 10-mile-wide Ames crater in northwest Oklahoma suggests that the submerged structure dates back to 370 million years ago, during the Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction event.
A recent satellite photo shows a patchwork of tens of thousands of size-restricted farms tightly crammed into Taiwan's Yunlin County, which grows a majority of the island's food.
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