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Two Centuries After This Bronze Leg Emerged From a Scottish Bog, Archaeologists Believe It May Have Belonged to a Towering Statue of a Roman Emperor on Horseback

Curator Fraser Hunter examines the bronze leg. Duncan McGlynn In 1820, a larger-than-life gilded bronze lower leg was pulled out of a bog in the Scottish Borders region. For more than two centuries, h...

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John J. McGraw Monument in Truxton, New York

There are in Truxton, New York, three interrelated sites associated with legendary baseball manager John J. McGraw, who was born in that Central New York town in 1873. The three are a monument to the ...

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This Adorable, Orphaned Baby Walrus Was Rescued by Two Researchers in Alaska. Now, He's Found a New Home in Florida

The rescued calf at SeaWorld Orlando SeaWorld Orlando A baby walrus left an orphan in Alaska has found a permanent home at SeaWorld Orlando after a days-long rescue mission and extensive rehabilitatio...

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Voyager 1 Is the Farthest Human-Made Object in the Universe—and the Spacecraft Is About to Reach One Light-Day From Earth

On November 18, Voyager 1 will reach 16.094 billion miles from Earth, the distance light travels in 24 hours. NASA / JPL In 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with th...

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The Cybertruck era is over, but America’s electric truck experiment isn’t

Despite recent flops, experts hope the next round of electric pickups will be cheaper — and less polarizing.

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While Cleaning Out Her Aunt's Manhattan Apartment, a Woman Found a Long-Lost Georgia O'Keeffe Painting Buried Beneath Fur Coats in the Closet

Georgia O'Keeffe, Near Abiquiu, New Mexico I, 1930 Courtesy of Christie's New York Most people’s closets are littered with life’s spare change—broken umbrellas, unpaired socks and discarded scraps of ...

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Accumulated So Many Microplastics They Might Be Changing the Color of the Ocean

Plastics become trapped in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and eventually break down into microplastics. Dukas / Universal Images Group via Getty Images Out in the Pacific Ocean, halfway between Calif...

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Even Replacing Some of Your Dietary Dairy With Plant-Based Alternatives Can Lead to Nutrient Deficiencies, Study Suggests

Researchers examined intake of four micronutrients, and iodine was the most sensitive to the swap to vegan alternatives. Jeffrey Greenberg / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Alternative dairy ...

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These cranberry bogs come with a side of solar

Two Massachusetts projects are the nation’s first to grow cranberries beneath solar panels, in another example of how agriculture and clean energy can coexist.

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For Centuries, Cave Visitors Walked Right by 280 Ice Age Engravings. The Newly Discovered Rock Art Is Rewriting Catalonia's Prehistory

An engraving of a horse, one of roughly 280 artworks found in the cave, is estimated to be 26,000 years-old. Josep Maria Vergès Bosch and Míriam Salas-Altès Tourists, explorers, archaeologists and oth...

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These Moths Use Their Genitals to Fend Off Bats—but Not in the Way You Think. They Emit Ultrasound to Scramble the Predators' Sonar

The black-belted hawkmoth (Megacorma obliqua) is one of the species that produces ultrasound. Paul Masonick Bats primarily use echolocation to hunt prey, using their sophisticated biological sonar sys...

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Barryscourt Castle in Cork, Ireland

Barryscourt Castle is one of those places in Cork where the landscape can make history feel surprisingly close. Just outside Carrigtwohill, the castle sits quietly behind its walls, but its stones con...

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Tombe de la Famille Nagelmackers in Liège, Belgium

Angleur is a neighbourhood in the south of Liège. It is a one-hour-and-15-minute drive west of Brussels. The area itself is not particularly interesting; it is a residential neighbourhood located betw...

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8 Gargoyles and Grotesques Hiding in Plain Sight

What’s more wondrous than towering spires on a building? Stained glass? Vaulted windows, or garden roofs? One word: Ghouls. Nothing jazzes up a normal old cathedral or mansion more than a mischievous ...

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Faculty and students show how reporting is done when a university partners with local news

Some universities are developing innovative arrangements with media outlets where students help report and faculty provide guidance.

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