The sandy cove along California's picturesque coast beckons visitors to what is supposed to be a public beach. But the imposing gate, the security guard and the annual $100 access fee tell a different story.
Environment
Sep 24, 2018
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"We got down from the car and went inside."
Social Sciences
Jun 12, 2023
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The face of a 16-year-old woman buried near Cambridge (UK) in the 7th century with an incredibly rare gold and garnet cross (the "Trumpington Cross") has been reconstructed following analysis of her skull. The striking image ...
Archaeology
Jun 19, 2023
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688
The Etruscan civilization, which flourished during the Iron Age in central Italy, has intrigued scholars for millennia. With remarkable metallurgical skills and a now-extinct, non-Indo-European language, the Etruscans stood ...
Archaeology
Sep 24, 2021
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A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory that the ancestors of African apes and humans evolved in Europe before migrating ...
Evolution
Aug 23, 2023
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1039
More than 3,000 years before the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean, another famous ship wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern shores of Uluburun—in present-day Turkey— carrying tons of rare metal. Since ...
Archaeology
Nov 30, 2022
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594
In the summer of 2021, Canada's all-time temperature record was smashed by almost 5℃. Its new record of 49.6℃ is hotter than anything ever recorded in Spain, Turkey or indeed anywhere in Europe.
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2023
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750
German officials say that a spike in radioactivity has been detected in the air in Western and Central Europe but there's no threat to human health.
Environment
Oct 5, 2017
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329
A newly discovered comet is streaking past Earth, providing a stunning nighttime show after buzzing the sun and expanding its tail.
Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2020
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an "intense and violent process." This discovery supports a long-debated theory for ...
Astronomy
Apr 4, 2022
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