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Landmark exhibition shows how samurai captured global imagination
Posted on Wednesday 21 January 2026
The image and identity of the samurai were shaped through exchange with global cultures, say researchers ahead of the opening of a major exhibition at the British Museum tracing the history of the famous Japanese warrior.
Anglo-Saxon ‘lordly centre’ revealed by excavations near Skipsea Castle
Posted on Tuesday 20 January 2026
Archaeologists working near Skipsea Castle in East Yorkshire say a series of rare discoveries is transforming understanding of life in the centuries before the Norman Conquest.
Scientists uncover hidden ‘winter memory’ inside plants
Posted on Monday 19 January 2026
Scientists have developed a powerful new microscope that reveals, for the first time, how plants store a ‘memory’ of winter deep inside their cells.
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