Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

Ars Technica revisits a grim piece of Inca history this week: researchers reanalyzing the remains of a boy sacrificed in the Capachoca ritual, in which children were offered to mountain deities, now conclude he died from blunt force trauma rather than freezing, as long believed. The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, refine the record of how these ceremonial killings were actually carried out.

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