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A German metal detectorist stopped digging after finding 15 silver coins and called archaeologists, who then recovered 934 Roman denarii near Cologne, the largest hoard from Emperor Hadrian’s era ever found in Germany
2 hours ago
Nearly 14,000 volunteers analysed 57,838 drone images of Galapagos marine iguanas; researchers found their counts needed correction |
3 hours ago
Australia’s critically endangered regent honeyeaters learned their traditional song, which has vanished from the wild, with 42% succeeding through live tutoring in small groups |
4 hours ago
Dutch scientists built a tiny robotic arm using living algae and two layers of gel; controlled by light, the two-centimetre strip grasped a metal ball and lifted a rubber ring underwater without a conventional motor
7 hours ago
In 1869, a Roman sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey puzzled archaeologists with a medieval cross on its lid; 157 years later, dating of the skeleton points to an 11th-century abbot, not the Roman named on the tomb
10 hours ago
Colorado built a wildlife overpass across a busy highway; a new report says animal-vehicle collisions fell by 91% as elk, bears and frogs began using the crossing
18 hours ago

Christmas Throwback: When Football silenced guns — and stopped a World War | Football News

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Soldiers playing football in No-Man’s Land a year after the Christmas Truce in 1914 (Photo Credit: Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images) On Christmas morning in 1914, something happened that no military plan could have predicted and no weapon could have forced. In the middle of World War I, one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history,…

A German metal detectorist stopped digging after finding 15 silver coins and called archaeologists, who then recovered 934 Roman denarii near Cologne, the largest hoard from Emperor Hadrian’s era ever found in Germany

Nearly 14,000 volunteers analysed 57,838 drone images of Galapagos marine iguanas; researchers found their counts needed correction |

Australia’s critically endangered regent honeyeaters learned their traditional song, which has vanished from the wild, with 42% succeeding through live tutoring in small groups |

Dutch scientists built a tiny robotic arm using living algae and two layers of gel; controlled by light, the two-centimetre strip grasped a metal ball and lifted a rubber ring underwater without a conventional motor

In 1869, a Roman sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey puzzled archaeologists with a medieval cross on its lid; 157 years later, dating of the skeleton points to an 11th-century abbot, not the Roman named on the tomb

Colorado built a wildlife overpass across a busy highway; a new report says animal-vehicle collisions fell by 91% as elk, bears and frogs began using the crossing

Christmas Throwback: When Football silenced guns — and stopped a World War | Football News