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A Hellenistic Ritual Complex Emerges in North Macedonia
Archaeologists working at Gradište, near Mlado Nagoričane in North Macedonia, have completed another season on the site's Lower Terrace and found what…
The Bloop
In 1997, undersea microphones picked up a sound loud enough to be heard across a third of the Pacific Ocean.
The Great Emu War
The time the Australian military lost a campaign against large flightless birds.
A Sailing Chart That Only Looked Crude
For 189 years a paper scroll has sat in the collection of the Royal Geographical Society in London, catalogued, examined periodically, and fundamentally…
A 99-Million-Year-Old Gecko in Amber, Identified as Male
Determining the sex of a fossil animal is one of palaeontology's more stubborn problems.
The Voynich Manuscript
A 15th-century book written in a script no one has ever translated.
Casablanca: The Price of Neutrality
Released in 1942, Casablanca is often hailed as Hollywood’s quintessential happy accident studio-system product that defied its chaotic production to…
Euclid Telescope Finds 31 of the Universe's Oldest Quasars, Including Two New Distance Records
Peering back toward the very edge of cosmic time, the European Space Agency's Euclid telescope has identified 31 quasars from the universe's infancy…
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Nine hikers, one mountain, and sixty years of unresolved forensic evidence.
"And Anna Karenina is dead"
Leo Tolstoy
How Byzantine Painters Made the Vivid Reds That Still Color Crete's Churches
Across the mountain villages of eastern Crete, small Byzantine churches carry murals whose reds have survived war, weather, and centuries of candle…
The Silent Erasure: Scandinavia's Forced Assimilation of the Sámi People
For centuries, the Sámi people lived in harmony with the unforgiving environments of Sápmi, a vast arctic region stretching across the northern…
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