When you need 200-year-old trees to repair a 200-year-old ship, where do you go? The Navy thought ahead.

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Large Hadron Collider relaunch tests halted by power cut. Scientists pinpoint cause as fowl play

De Beers fights lab-grown diamonds with technology as China’s synthetic gems threaten viability of their market

Discover one of the more unusual colourful specimens at the Museum - a reindeer eyeball that has been sliced in half.

Kurt Cobain's green cardigan from Nirvana's MTV Unplugged concert sold for $334,000 at auction Saturday.

The Oklahoma Panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, consisting of Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County, from…

From May 20 to May 28, 1960, The Silver Beetles (as they were called at the time) toured Scotland, backing a young musician named Johnny Gentle. As part of this tour, the whole band decided to give themselves pseudonyms. Dee Dee then came up with the idea…

The greatest quarterback of all time was famously drafted by the Montreal Expos.

This is an interview with Julian Lennon from March 18th 1999 with Dini Petty. He speaks of his new album, his TRUE feelings of Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Paul McCartney and his father John Lennon. A very interesting interview where Julian speaks very openly…

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procedure in which spermatozoa are extracted from a legally dead person

Sperm whales' clicks are powerful enough to penetrate and vibrate your entire body to death. Sperm whales are amazing in so many ways.  They are very

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Over the past five decades, at least six actors have stepped onto the big screen as the ageless agent 007, beginning with Sean Connery in 1962’s “Dr. No.”...

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