Stone Teddy Bears in 5 Months

Discovered in a water cooling tower, this virus is larger than some bacteria. It has its own genes for protein synthesis, blurring the line between living and non-living.

A 2,200-year-old warrior buried leaping over his chariot, horses still attached. The entire vehicle was interred standing up. A frozen moment of Iron Age horsemanship.

A woman buried with a two-wheeled chariot and weapons around 300 BCE. Skeletal analysis proves female warriors weren't myths. Some Iron Age women commanded military resources.

Britain's most important Mesolithic site, where 11,000-year-old peat preserved wooden paddles, beads, and 21 red deer skull headdresses that hunters may have worn for ritual or camouflage. The site also has the oldest known building in Britain and evidence of the earliest carpentry.

A fungus that thrives at mammalian body temperature due to evolving in rotting vegetation. Its heat tolerance preadapted it to infect humans, and climate change is selecting for even more heat-resistant fungal pathogens.

A village in Derbyshire that voluntarily quarantined itself during the 1665 plague to prevent spread to neighboring towns. About half the population died, but genetic studies of descendants found mutations that may have provided some disease resistance.