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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Is About to Bring Asteroid Piece
Seven years after it left for the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is
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2023-09-23 13:14:21
Current helmet standards tests are overlooking a k
Workers at construction companies with 20 employees or less have 2.5 times increased chance of exper
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2023-09-23 01:00:12
Silica protocols should include proper ventilation
Silica is released into the air during the construction process and breathing it in can lead to canc
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2023-09-23 01:00:12
The human desire to be connected should extend to
With such a strong desire to be connected, why don’t we feel this same need to be connected throug
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2023-09-23 01:00:12
A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis
In the last days of the 1400s, a terrible epidemic swept through Europe. Men and women spiked sudden fevers. Their joints ached, and they broke out in rashes that ripened into bursting boils. Ulcers ate away at their faces, collapsing their noses and jaws, working down their throats and airways, making it impossible to eat or drink. Survivors were grossly disfigured. Unluckier victims died.
The infection sped across the borders of a politically fractured landscape, from France into Italy, on to Switzerland and Germany, and north to the British Isles, Scandinavia, and Russia. The Holy Roman Emperor declared it a punishment from God. “Nothing could be more serious than this curse, this barbarian poison,” an Italian historian wrote in 1495.
Out of the chaos, several things became clear. The infection seemed to start in the genitals. The pathogen seemed to travel along the paths of mercenary soldiers hired by warring rulers to attack their rivals, and with the informal households and sex workers that followed their campaigns. Though every nation associated the disorder with their enemies—the French called it the Neapolitan disease, the English called it the French disease, the Russians blamed the Poles, and the Turks blamed Christians—there came a growing sense that one nation might be responsible.
It seemed plausible that the great pox, later called syphilis, might have journeyed with Spanish mercenaries, who represented much of the army of N
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