Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

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COMMENT: For the fifth year running, Wonder Woman has been excluded from DC Comics’ Pride anthology, writes . The superhero ...

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The island of Sifnos perfectly combines Greek tradition with natural beauty, yet remains a little-known secret outside of ...

Fragments of two lost ancient Greek plays by playwright Euripides found in Egypt were remade into a play combining theater / ...