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As underwater archaeologists pull artifacts from what may be the wreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, historians raise new questions about the legendary pirate
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In California’s Long Valley, the earth trembles every day where a volcano once exploded
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Casting Light on Iranian Deserts
Closely watched by their guides and military escort, harried biologists survey the wild things that survive there
At his laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, researcher Mark Tilden creates machines that march to the beat of a different drummer
“You Gotta Remember, Eels Are Weird”
They’re slimy, snaky, ugly and repulsive, but once you acquire a taste for this much-maligned species, “slippery as an eel” becomes a compliment
Long displayed, long dispersed, the famous Hornaday bison “family” is reunited in a new home
Slowly rising temperatures are melting the frozen ground that underlies most land at high latitudes
In Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest, old logging roads that ruin streams are getting the axe
When the Big Three Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin convened at this fabled Crimean seaside resort in 1945, the whole world was watching
Strange things happen at this wacky crossroads of the hopelessly alien-addled in the Nevada desert
If you can move a lighthouse, you can move anything
Martin Johnson Heade: An American Original
A master of light, atmosphere and mood, the 19th-century artist is now recognized as one of this country’s great Romantic painters
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Pete Sampras and the Williams sisters play tennis. The author and his fancy French friends prefer its ancestor
A risky experiment reveals how medieval engines of war brought down castle walls
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An enigmatic button once decorated the uniform of Haitian liberator Toussaint Louverture
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