Join the Navy and see the world.” That was the recruiting slogan for the U.S. Navy when I volunteered in 1957. After getting assigned to European shore duty as my first Navy assignment, I was hooked ...

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New evidence from Neolithic mass graves in northeastern France suggests that some of Europe’s earliest violent encounters were not random acts of brutality, but carefully staged displays of power. By ...

The study, published in Science Advances, analyzed 82 humans from the Alsace region (around 4300–4150 cal BC) and found statistically significant chemical differences between those treated “normally” ...