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About 4600 years ago, the population of Britain was replaced by a people who brought Bell Beaker pottery with them. Now, ...

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The first people to reach the Kitsissut Islands off the north-west coast of Greenland were Indigenous peoples, who crossed ...

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Once considered an oddity of quantum physics, time crystals could be a good building block for accurate clocks and sensors, ...

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