Did Sailors Really Drink The Brandy Surrounding Admiral Nelson’s Corpse?
A naval hero was struck down in the Napoleonic War when Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson wound up on the receiving end of a musket ball. The
A naval hero was struck down in the Napoleonic War when Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson wound up on the receiving end of a musket ball. The
Keeping up with your COVID-19 vaccines is a good idea for lots of reasons – not least the fact that the virus keeps throwing new
A beloved bear, known as the world’s most famous grizzly, has died after being struck by a vehicle at Grand Teton National Park in western
A newly discovered species of mammal has provided a snapshot of terrestrial North America that goes back 70–75 million years ago, a time slice that’s
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New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts might be home to five impressive whale skeletons, but the blue whale in particular might leave its mark on
A communications satellite has been lost in Earth’s geostationary orbit, breaking up into several pieces of debris after an “anomaly” occurred over the weekend. Intelsat
A filmmaker claims that scientists hunting the skies for signs of intelligent alien civilizations have found an alien technosignature, to be revealed to the public
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Releasing carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases is easy, but it takes work to capture them again. Removing carbon from the air is a way to
There are always more species to be discovered. Whether it is a bizarre-looking worm lizard or something that has been hidden in a drawer for
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The decomposition ecosystem makes quick work of our corpses when we die, letting loose a rich diversity of microbes and luring in flies from miles
The largest prime number ever discovered has been found by an amateur mathematician using Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). Prime numbers, as you likely
Two cities that flourished as part of the Silk Road have been mapped though drone-borne LiDAR, revealing them as two of the largest cities on
A new USGS survey, made possible through machine learning and environmental testing, has led to the discovery of an estimated 5 to 19 million tons