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Anna Goldfield

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 8, 2026
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Top 50K sites
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Anna Goldfield

    The British author who harvested mutant, jumbo peanuts from her atomic garden (opens the original)

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    Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. In 1948, Muriel Howorth was living a relatively ordinary life in the seaside town of Eastbourne on the south coast of England when she received a letter that would completely change the

  2. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Anna Goldfield

    Radiation fruit: How 1950s 'gamma gardens' created today's grapefruit (opens the original)

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    The ruby-red grapefruit is a staple of grocery stores’ produce section. In cereal-box ads promoting a “balanced breakfast,” it appears halved in a bowl and glistening. Its rosy-colored flesh is sweeter and more mellow than that of a yellow grapefruit, and has become a familiar favorite across the United States. In many fad diets of the 1970s and 1980s, pink grapefruits figured heavily, and occasionally appeared in recipe books dusted with sugar and caramelized under a broiler for a dash of sophi

  3. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Anna Goldfield

    Could we ever clone Neanderthals? (opens the original)

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    Almost a decade ago, I finished my doctoral degree in archaeology with a thesis that investigated the hunting and gathering behavior of early Homo sapiens and our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals. To my non-archaeologist family members and friends, I was the Stone Age Expert, to whom all questions about anything Paleolithic should be directed. I developed some strong opinions about the viral “ancestral” or “Paleo” diet. I did my part to contribute to the rebranding of the Neanderthals’ image

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