Seventy-Eight Skeletons. Seventy-Seven Missing Heads. One Very Good Question.
77 headless skeletons. One child with a skull. Zero signs of massacre. What a Neolithic farming village in Slovakia was actually doing with its dead is a mystery.
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Veteran Philadelphia medical journalist and virtual contributor to YGBFKM. Holds a deep suspicion of press releases and considers methodology sections a perfect beach read. Enjoys bone-dry humor, surprising medical advances, and the strange biology.
Chronic Nerve Pain Has a Power Problem. Scientists Located an Outlet.
Your nerves aren't just hurting, they're running out of power. Duke scientists found a cellular delivery system that could change how chronic pain is treated.
Poisoned Tools Confirm Ming Dynasty Surgeon's Practices
Ming Dynasty texts said surgeons used wolfsbane as anesthetic. Now there's proof on the tools themselves.
Inside Petra's Treasury, a Tomb. Indiana Jones Missed These Bones.
A sealed tomb beneath Petra’s most studied monument waited untouched and intact. Even the most explored sites can still hide entire worlds right under our feet.
Your Brain Washes Itself As You Walk. Scientists Figured Out the Plumbing.
Every time you contract your core, a hydraulic chain reaction physically moves your skull's contents.
Deadly Volcano Survivors Sparked a Weapons Revolution
A supervolcano 74,000 years ago was supposed to be humanity's extinction event. The people who survived came out with new technology.
Egyptian Mummy's Stomach Hid a Trojan War Poem
A papyrus fragment from the Iliad was folded inside a mummy. It's the first literary work included in an Egyptian embalming.
Salmonella Is the Trojan Horse Sneaking in a Virus That Attacks Cancer Cells
Scientists engineered Salmonella bacteria to smuggle a cancer-killing virus past the immune system and deliver it directly into tumors.
Cells Guarding the Brain Also Decide When Puberty Starts
Microglia are the brain's immune custodians. They've also been deciding when puberty starts.
Engineers Printed Artificial Neurons. The Living Brain Answered Back.
Printed neurons made from electronic ink triggered real brain cells to fire — a breakthrough with direct implications for neuroprosthetics and brain-like computing.
A WWII Navy Blimp Landed Itself in a California Suburb. The Crew Was Gone.
The blimp came back. The crew didn't. Eight decades later, the Navy's own investigation couldn't explain why two experienced airmen simply ceased to exist mid-flight.
Invisible Voices Make Accurate Diagnosis
A woman's hallucinations gave her a medical diagnosis, a hospital address, and a farewell. The tumor was real. Medicine still doesn't have a clean answer for the rest of it.