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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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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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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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Archaeologists in England Discovered 8,000 Roman-Era Frog Bones in a Single Ditch. They Just Solved the Mystery of How the Amphibians Ended Up There

An aerial view of the Bar Hill archaeological site, where excavations uncovered some 8,000 frog bones between 2016 and 2018 © MOLA Headland Infrastructure Between 2016 and 2022, archaeologists conduct...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Where to See the World’s Creepiest Dolls and Toys

Humans have played with dolls for thousands of years, but it was not until the 18th century, when improved manufacturing rendered them more lifelike, that they started to be seen as sinister. Doll mak...

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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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Only-in-Anchorage Winter Traditions

Winter brings out the best of Anchorage. Under a blanket of snow, the city comes alive with festivals exploring regional history, lively tributes to Indigenous culture, decades-old sled dog races, and...

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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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