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The Sun reports on the latest scientific findings confirming that the Shroud of Turin was first made about 2,000 years ago, which coincides with the time of Jesus Christ, suggesting that the burial cloth with…

Thousands of hours have gone into the study of the Shroud: professionals from a variety of fields have examined the tiniest particles of pollen, microscopic fragments of stone, the details of photographs and X-rays of the cloth, its weave and much else besides. This is not the first study

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The History of One English Road, from the Cretaceous to the Present Day

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Bulgarian pepper in Russia since the 16th century and theories behind its name

Bell peppers have been known in Russia since at least the 16th century: the crop reached us from Turkey and Iran. According to one version, the name, which in Russian means "Bulgarian pepper", comes from the fact that the peppers were brought by Bulgarian settlers; according to another,

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Newton's alchemical laboratory in his Cambridge years stood in the garden of Trinity College, between the chapel and the college gate; its exact location is unknown, but the approximate site was established by excavations, in which were found…

Newton's alchemical laboratory in his Cambridge years stood in the garden of Trinity College, between the chapel and the college gate. Its exact location is unknown, but the approximate site was established by excavations, in which waste from chemical experiments was found. It is known that Newton devoted

Black-and-white photograph of an elderly man with a white beard and glasses, seated in a chair with his hands folded on his lap.

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Photographic portrait of Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky seated in a chair

The Triumph of Historical Criticism: Overhearing, in What the People of a Given Time Say, What They Kept Silent About. Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky

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Newton, alchemy and a calculation from the Book of Daniel on a major event around 2060

For more than 30 years Isaac Newton devoted himself to alchemical research, little known in his lifetime and little studied afterwards. Only in recent decades have scholars begun to pay serious attention to the manuscripts from his alchemical laboratory. The study of Newton's writings on alchemy and the

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Images Published of Water Ice in an 82-Kilometre Crater at Mars's North Pole

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Dutch barber Quirin suspected of sorcery because of a skeleton on his wall

Adam Olearius, in his "Detailed Description of the Journey of the Holstein Embassy to Muscovy and Persia in 1633, 1636 and 1639", relates the following incident:. "...a barber named Quirinus, a Dutchman and a man of merry disposition, being in the service of the Grand Duke, kept

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Question about a single national list of scientific periodicals given RINTs, the VAK list and RSCI

Vladislav Panchenko, Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences, proposes the creation of a national list of scientific periodicals. He explains that “without a single national list of scientific periodicals we shall not be able to go on developing, or to defend our positions in the international scientific community, including

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In 1776 Joseph Wright of Derby presented a painting of a Solar System model as a scientific mystery

The faces of the figures in Joseph Wright's painting are lit by an unseen candle in accordance with the principal phases of the Moon. In 1776 the British artist Joseph Wright of Derby presented to the public a painting in which a scientific subject was depicted as though

Old engraving of two men operating on the head of a patient seated in a chair, with a sick person lying in bed in the room behind.

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Trepanation in the practice of the 16th-century Spanish physician Franciscus Arceus

Dreadful, dreadful, dreadful medicine of the past. What bliss to live in the twentieth century. And, in part, the twenty-first. Trepanation by the sixteenth-century Spanish physician Francisco Arceo

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Sergey Ryazansky and Vyacheslav Dubynin on space and the brain at an Ultima Yandex Go event

In what do earthworms surpass the most advanced neural networks? Is humanity ready for long space journeys? What is the difference between the male and the female brain? This rather unexpected set of questions was discussed yesterday, under the attentive moderation of Kira Altman, at the first event of the