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Other Sciences
Scientists uncover origins of horse riding from human remains
The kurgan hypothesis claims that the Yamnaya people spread their culture across Eurasia, including by building burial mounds like this kurgan in the Mongolian steppes. Credit: William Taylor As anyone who has ever ridden a horse knows, riding a horse is hard on the body, but does it change the way your skeleton looks? The answer is “complicated,” according to…
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Biology
Geologists and dentists create dental database to help identify missing military remains
Map showing the amount of heavy oxygen in local groundwater. Courtesy of the Bowen Institute. More than 80,000 American soldiers are missing from past wars, mostly from World War II. When remains are found, decomposition often makes identification difficult, but not impossible. Even without names, fingerprints or facial features, our histories remain locked in the atoms of the hardest tissue…
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Biology
Geologists and dentists create dental database to help identify missing military remains
Map showing the amount of heavy oxygen in local groundwater. Courtesy of the Bowen Institute. More than 80,000 American soldiers are missing from past wars, mostly from World War II. When remains are found, decomposition often makes identification difficult, but not impossible. Even without names, fingerprints or facial features, our histories remain locked in the atoms of the hardest tissue…
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