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By The Long View · Sep 8, 2026
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Archaeologists have dug at the Assyrian capital of Nimrud since 1845 almost entirely on its palace mound, and a new survey of the whole…
By The Long View · Sep 7, 2026
Two researchers who measured real campfires report that firelight is bright enough to read a pair of hands, and argue that its flicker may…
By The Long View · Sep 6, 2026
A woman hired at 84 into a temporary National Park Service role in Richmond, California, became a permanent ranger at 89 and gave her last…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 4, 2026
In 1994, the last Coast Guard keepers left New Dungeness Lighthouse
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 4, 2026
On August 19, 2026, the IRS announced a new Office of Conservation Easements and immediately ended the uniform settlement initiative it had…
By The Long View · Sep 3, 2026
A Colorado ski area retired all 220 chairs from a lift installed in 1972 when it replaced the old lift
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 3, 2026
Rome scoops roughly 1.5 million euros a year in coins out of one fountain and gives it to a charity that runs a food bank
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 2, 2026
Ancient cacao DNA has been recovered from two pottery fragments dug out of eleventh and twelfth century feasting pits at Etowah in Georgia…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 2, 2026
An 11-year-old in Colorado who had been following the Flint water crisis built a prototype lead detector using carbon nanotubes, an Arduino…
By Lab Report · Sep 1, 2026
More than 2.5 kilometres of previously unrecorded pre-Hispanic road, including a zigzagging main road of at least 1.2 kilometres, has been…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 30, 2026
Researchers who followed 1,004 Dutch retirees found that those who had climbed steeply in their careers were less likely to miss their old…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 30, 2026