In George Eliot’s novel Silas Marner, the delusional namesake character returns home to find what he thinks to be his missing hoard of gold on the kitchen table. But when he reaches out his hand to ...

We investigate whether differences in breast cancer survival in six high-income countries can be explained by differences in stage at diagnosis using routine data from population-based cancer ...

Inscription on knife discovered by archaeologist in grave on island of Funen spells hirila, which means ‘little sword’ An engraving on an almost 2,000-year-old knife believed to be the oldest runes ...

Archaeologists in Denmark have found a 2000-year-old knife believed to be inscribed with the oldest runes ever discovered in the country. The runic inscription, carved in the alphabet of Denmark’s ...