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Nasty, brutish and not that short

Medieval warfare was just as terrifying as you might imagine

The soldier now known as Towton 25 had survived battle before. A healed skull fracture points to previous engagements. He was old enough—somewhere between 36 and 45 when he died—to have gained plenty of experience of fighting. But on March 29th 1461, his luck ran out.

Progress in Physics

LHC’s Lack of Black Holes Rules Out Some Versions of String Theory

the LHC doesn’t seem to be making black holes at all—their decay signature is markedly absent from the data collected so far.

[This is] helping physicists make up their minds about how many dimensions there are in our universe. The lack of black holes at the LHC nullifies some of the wackier versions of string theory which depend on multiple dimensions.