Along a series of Roman fortifications cutting across Germany just north of Frankfurt, archeological excavations have revealed extensive floorplans belonging to a temple, a military camp, and craft center. The discovery, lying in wait just a few inches beneath the soil of the forest, provides extensive insight into what life was like along this frontier, […]

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This seismic squash was just certified as the largest ever grown by a man at a recent British competition. When volunteers at the Wargrave Nursery Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off finally hoisted the specimen onto the scale, the reading was simply incredible—2,856.8lbs (1,295.8kg) It’s heavier than a white rhino, heavier than a Volkswagen Beetle, and when compared […]

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An open-source app has thousands of Berliners adopting and watering city trees as if they were their pets, helping keep the city green amid repeated summer heatwaves. Gieß den Kiez translates to “water your neighborhood,” and offers users a map of the city with each one of the roughly 900,000 street trees of Berlin accessible as […]

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In a mountainous region of southern Norway, scientists are in their 20th year of surveying glaciers for ancient artifacts entombed therein. The most recent chapter of this long-running saga was the recovery of 48 arrow heads and shafts from different eras and made from different materials, some of which appear like they could have been […]

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