After extracting and analyzing ancient DNA from the teeth of 13 soldiers they instead found evidence the men suffered from a ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte led his Grand Army into Russia in 1812, he commanded the largest military force Europe had ever seen ...

When Napoleon marched his Grand Army of 600,000 troops into Russia in 1812, he commanded one of the largest fighting forces ...

To solve the debate of which pathogens were involved in the destruction of Napoleon's army, researchers analyzed the teeth of ...

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s once-mighty army left Russia battered, frostbitten, and starving. The infamous retreat claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, but until recently, no one could say ...

Institut Pasteur and partner institutions report genetic evidence of Salmonella enterica lineage Para C and Borrelia recurrentis in Napoleonic soldiers from Vilnius, indicating paratyphoid fever and ...

The story of Napoleon's catastrophic retreat from Russia in 1812 may be being rewritten thanks to advances in genetic ...

An international team of scientists has successfully identified for the first time, with direct genetic evidence, the microbes that contributed to the catastrophic death toll among Napoleon’s soldiers ...

The sci-fi-like project won the top prize in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a contest for designing hypothetical ...

This is the first time these kinds of diamonds have been made synthetically under laboratory conditions, putting an end to 60 ...

Discover a vast, previously unknown world of microbial life that survives—and even thrives—for hundreds of millions of years ...

Flores is the same place where archaeologists discovered the short-statured Homo floresiensis – also known as the 'hobbit' – ...