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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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Thawing Permafrost May Have Created a New Type of Landslide, Which Could Become More Common as the World Warms

A scar left by the 2018 Redstone River permafrost landslide, one of the two events investigated in the new study. Adapted from J. M. Young et al., Geophysical Research Letters, 2026 In 2017 and 2018, ...

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German Renaissance Master Albrecht Altdorfer Pioneered Landscape Painting. A Work Previously Unknown to Scholars Just Emerged After 70 Years in a Private Collection

The painting does not appear in Altdorfer’s catalogue raisonné and was only identified earlier this year. Sotheby’s / Rayan Bamhayan For nearly seven decades, a small 16th-century painting of a forest...

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More Than 3,000 Tarantulas Were Found Hidden in Socks During a Major Wildlife Trafficking Bust at an Airport in Lima, Peru

Officials found thousands of eggs, hatchlings and adult spiders. SERFOR Authorities in Peru say they have foiled a plot to smuggle more than 3,000 tarantulas—including species not yet described in sci...

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Designed to Be Unsinkable, the World's Fastest Ocean Liner Finally Hits the Ocean Floor. The 53,330-Ton S.S. 'United States' Is Now the World's Largest Artificial Reef

The S.S. United States in its berth in Philadelphia in 2025 WSRower via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 On June 29, 1952, a state-of-the-art ocean liner, nearly 1,000 feet long, opened up to the ...

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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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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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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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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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New restrictions on purchases with SNAP benefits in some states mean fewer convenience stores are accepting them

Stores in waiver states may need to update their checkout systems and train employees to prevent purchases that are no longer allowed with SNAP benefits – potentially a big burden for retailers.

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We studied 1,584 data centers – and found the buildings full of machines are tied to modest local job growth

This employment boost took three to five years to show up, two researchers found after studying more than two decades of data.

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Anchorage: A City Within the Wild

In Anchorage, exploring nature isn’t only for a rare free day or a well-planned vacation; it’s a part of daily life, as integral to the city as its infrastructure and cultural offerings. A day here ma...

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