When sponge divers found an ancient shipwreck off the small Greek island of Antikythera around 1900, they brought up the kinds of objects archaeologists expected from a wealthy vessel of the ancient Mediterranean: statues, pottery, glasswar...
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Quantum entanglement is often introduced with a sentence that sounds like science fiction: two particles can be linked so deeply that changing one instantly changes the other, even if they a...
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An old tree can carry the shape of an injury long after the branch that caused it has disappeared. A swollen collar may surround the site of a lost limb. Growth rings can bend around the old...
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Modern elections are designed to look ordinary. Voters enter a booth, mark a choice, deposit a ballot and wait for arithmetic to produce a winner. In medieval and early modern Europe, choosi...
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Astronomy has a reputation for expensive telescopes, complicated star charts and distant objects visible only through professional instruments. Yet some of the sky's most memorable events re...
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“Demmel Sims” might sound like the name of your new favorite jazz bassist or a long-lost Marvel character, but in reality, it’s... no one. Or at least, no one definitively identifiable. Go a...
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What’s Inside a Black Hole? Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe. They form when a massive star collapses under its own gravity, creating a region of space...
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