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Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...

One of the more interesting and more dangerous Olympic events is skeleton. Skeleton involves an athlete sliding down an ice track in a sled. Sounds simple ... except that the athletes go headfirst ...

Setback for Team GB’s Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt Great Britain’s skeleton team have been banned from wearing its new aerodynamic helmets at the Winter Olympics after the court of arbitration for ...

The Winter Olympics feature a variety of sledding sports. Two of the most well known are bobsled and luge. And then there's skeleton. From the name to the sport itself, skeleton is a bit more of an ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics, held in Northern Italy in the cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, are here. If you're tuning into the action this February, odds are you're going to see some bobsled, luge ...

Flying face-first down an icy chute at speeds of up to 150km/h: skeleton certainly isn’t for the faint of heart. The death-defying Olympic sport also happens to be Team GB’s most successful, with ...

Skeleton offers a high‑adrenaline blend of speed, precision and sheer courage as athletes hurtle head‑first toward victory. Athletes race down an ice track lying on a small, flat sled, with their face ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus “A finding like this does give hope,” says William ...

A skeleton athlete slides down the track in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, that will host the Olympics. Last weekend, a sudden coaching decision shook up the women's qualifying picture. Alex Pantling / ...

U.S. skeleton competitor Katie Uhlaender says she felt betrayed by the decision, made by a good friend of hers Sean Neumann has more than a decade of experience working as a reporter, with a focus on ...

The governing body for the winter sport of skeleton, the International Bobsled Skeleton Federation (IBSF), has dismissed complaints that the Canadian women’s team and its coach Joe Cecchini engaged in ...